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Article #72018Re: Binary Only Archives Considered Helpful
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 03:33
Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 03:33
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jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler) writes: >Could I suggest that FSF license grant special permission for binary >archives, on a case by case basis? This sounds like a good idea in principle, but in practice I don't think it would work. It would imply that the FSF would have to keep a registry of ``special cases'', and there would be a lot of special cases, the copies of which would tend to multiply beyond the ken of either the FSF or the binary-only distributors. In effect, this would transfer some of the burden of special-version support from distributors, where it belongs, to the FSF, which already has too much work to do. Surely GPL clauses 3b and 3c offer a sufficiently large escape hatch for binary-only distributors.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,2d26c6d8e80c90a X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-05-11 14:45:08 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Subject: Re: Binary Only Archives Considered Helpful Message-ID: <#-&mx+|uh@twinsun.com> Sender: usenet@twinsun.com Nntp-Posting-Host: farside Organization: Twin Sun, Inc References: <1992May11.050005.2488@algor2.algorists.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 03:33:43 GMT Lines: 14