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Article #1667Re: Fund raising at the FSF
From: Noah Friedman
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 16:51
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 16:51
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In article <1993Jan9.212802.22646@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes: >>Therefore, by >> modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the >> Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so... > >Does this work? I don't think so. If the only way to legally distribute >the program is to accept the license, it does not follow that someone who >distributes the program has just accepted the license. Rather, what follows is >that _either_ they accepted the license _or_ they committed a crime. If someone decides not to "accept" the license but happens to distribute it under terms which coincide with the license, who cares? If they distribute something through improper means, then yes, they have commited a crime. But that's true whether you "accept" the license or not.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!friedman From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF Date: 9 Jan 93 16:51:24 Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <FRIEDMAN.93Jan9165124@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <1993Jan7.230129.19091@husc3.harvard.edu> <1imlr5INN2tu@early-bird.think.com> <FRIEDMAN.93Jan9114839@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan9.212802.22646@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu's message of Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:28:02 GMT