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In article <C0Au59.C4n@mtholyoke.edu> 
jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:

>In article <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu>
>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>The way I see it, the use of GNU places me under a legal obligation to
>>the FSF; on the other hand, as a certified misanthrope with no ready
>>ftp access, I have no way to obtain a copy for nothing.

JB:
>I know, this is the third or fourth article in this thread in which I'm
>saying the same thing, but then I'm still not anywhere near Michael's
>volume of repetitive rhetoric, so here goes...
>
>READ THE BLOODY LICENSE!
>
>"The use of GNU" does NOT place you under any legal obligation to
>anyone or anything.  Only the redistribution of GNU places you under
>legal obligations to the copyright holder, the FSF.

The use of GNU places me under a reciprocal obligation which limits
its usufruit, regardless of whether or not I ever exercise my physical
ability to do so.  I know that it may be hard to figure out, but feel
free to ask somebody in your philosophy department about the meaning
of obligation.

TOB:
>>>In any case, the CopyLeft license can be easily obtained and read (As I'm
>>>sure you have), so I can't believe anyone is truly misled.

MZ:
>>Consider a career as a copywriter; you have the right approach.  On
>>second thought, even that profession does not call for a small print
>>explanation that the "Care Free" menstrual pads will not *really* live
>>up to the insouciantly autarchic implications of their trade name.

JB:
>The above paragraph is apparently devoid of semantic content.  Equally
>apparent is that either Michael did not in fact read the GNU Public
>License, or he first translated it into a similarly content-free 
>intermediate representation.

May I suggest the alternative possibility, that you are
constitutionally incapable of understanding an English sentence
possessed of a subordinate clause?

>--
>Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
>Northampton, MA, USA

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."