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Article #1660Re: Fund raising at the FSF
From: Charles Hannum
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 15:12
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 15:12
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In article <1993Jan9.025025.19137@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes: > > Regarding the touchy issue of magic changes of existing documents, I > advise you to ask Stallman about the contents of the original, > pre-FSF text of "The GNU Manifesto". Better yet, go to the library > and look it up. The "GNU Manifesto" is not a legal document. The GPL is a published legal document, of which there are probably at least several million copies. Given that it is included in almost every FSF distribution, and that people regularly `diff' different versions of a program, any change is likely to be noticed by many people. If you're sufficiently paranoid, it surely must have occured to you that you could ask the FSF to send you a notarized copy of the GPL, to compare against later copies. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF Date: 9 Jan 1993 15:12:07 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1imq07INNic9@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1993Jan8.170541.19119@husc3.harvard.edu> <MIB.93Jan8191428@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan9.025025.19137@husc3.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu