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Article #1131Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects
From: Noah Friedman
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 18:40
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!friedman From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects Message-ID: <FRIEDMAN.92Oct4144055@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: 4 Oct 92 18:40:55 GMT References: <1992Oct3.220517.1325@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Oct3.221703.1496@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <BURLEY.92Oct4011851@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Oct4.124453.10061@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 17 In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 4 Oct 92 12:44:53 GMT