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Article #2043Re: GPL clarification
From: MAJOR
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 07:52
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 07:52
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adiron!tish@UUNET.UU.NET (Todd) writes: >Our corporate attorney has reviewed the GNU Public License. He >concludes that we can adhere to the license and not be forced to >disclose sources for our own code/algorithms so long as we require our >customer to purchase the GNU software (libraries, etc.) directly and >compile all appropriate pieces. Does your organization concur with >this interpretation of the GNU Public License? To do this would defeat the _purpose_ of the GPL even if it was within it's letter. If I were the FSF I would not be giving you any cause to relax, even if I thought you might get away with it in a court. Major major@pyrmania.oz.au
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