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Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 18:40
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In article <1992Oct4.124453.10061@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>        If I am essentially "selling" a "free" distribution, it doesn't
>matter if I call my activity "charging copying fees", "documentation and
>support fees" or something else entirely; it is likely that some part of
>my profit is attributable to the GNU code.  

   That's irrelevent.  The "freeness" of the software has nothing to do
with price.  There is a difference between "free speech" and "free ice
cream", for example. 

>                                             Article 2(b) of the GPL puts
>any work containing it as a component in question if I bugfix the GNU
>code so that it will work a particular way for 386BSD.

   There's no question about it.  Any changes to GNU software must
themselves remain redistributable, though you are welcome to sell the
software with bugfixes. 
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