Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:48

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Ian Lance Taylor writes [in response to MZ]:


   			 ...All freedom exists under a certain set of
   more or less onerous restrictions.  Your argument against the GPL
   seems to me to be that the GPL is sufficiently onerous that it does
   not deserve to be called free.

compare and contrast with the restrictions on the following [eg]: BSD source,
the X window system and related software, tex, kermit, c-news, icon, CMU lisp,
byacc ...

qed.

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