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Who "owns" gnu source code?

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From: Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1992 14:17
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Greetings,

I am part of a group which is working on an GNU-like application on the 
Macintosh (please don't tell me this is an oxymoron :-)).  I was wondering 
who really "owns" gnu source code.  Is that some legal entity?  Do authors
that work "for" gnu necessarily need to "give" there code away?  We are 
just starting to create code and would like to know how someone else is
doing this.

FYI this application is called FilterTop.  It is meant to allow folks to 
translate, or filter, data and give a framework for folks to create filters.
We are also working with AppleEvents, which will allow other apps to call
FilterTop directly.  See the posting on the newsgroup comp.sys.mac.announce
for more details.  We will be distributing FilterTop and its source for free.
If you want to work with AppleEvents on this project, 
contact me directly. There may also be MacWeek article about FilterTop
in a few weeks.

Dirk Herr-Hoyman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
dhoyman@fammed.wisc.edu
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