Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Scott Ballantyne
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:03

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In article <1993Jan7.123025.19069@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

   You haven't read the GPL.  The FSF legally owns all code licensed under
   the GPL, under *any* reasonable definition of intellectual property.

If the FSF owns all code licensed under the GPL, then why can't they
legally prevent people from running GNU products on their Apple
computers? FSF can't legally violate the terms of the GPL anymore than
you or I can, which is why you see many messages from rms asking
people not to help get GNU stuff up on Apple computers, but not one
message from a FSF lawyer threatening a suit if anyone runs emacs on a
mac.

If all I can legally do is ask you to please not use my software, and
please no one show you how to use my software, that doesn't seem like
a reasonable definition of ownership.

Really, the FSF is more of a caretaker than an owner of GPL covered
software.

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Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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