Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Dave Eisen
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 05:23

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In article <C0B34q.Ax0@news.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>If you are complaining that the GPL does not grant you the right
>to "proprietary use of the source code", well, that's tough.  
>
>The only sense of the word "proprietary" that is applicable here
>would be "made and marketed by by one having the exclusive right
>to manufacture and sell" (Webster's 7th Collegiate).

That's just plain not true. One can not use the source code
in any way other than infecting it with the GPL; this is far
more limiting than preventing a programmer from using GPLed
code in a proprietary project. In particular, one cannot use
GPLed code in the least proprietary projects of all: public
domain software. This is a real restriction in the freedom
of a programmer who wants to use GNU software to the fullest;
I'll leave it to Mikhail and the rest of you to decide whether
this restriction is inconsistent with the use of the word "free".

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