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Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 05:10
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ciaran@ulysse.enst.fr (Ciaran O'Donnell) writes:

>However, the Gnu Public License (GPL) and the notion of "copyleft" is in
>itself a perversion of the legal system. Take a good look at the GPL and
>then compare it to any other licence (Microsoft, ATT). The "software hoarders"
>license are much less constraining and paranoid than the GPL. Nor is this
>the result of FSF "ideological diarrhea." The FSF licenses are written by
>lawyers, good lawyers at that.

I think you're letting your argument run away with you.  My license
for Microsoft Word doesn't even let me copy the program more than
once.  There is not one thing it permits that the GPL does not also
permit.
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Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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