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Article #72206Who "owns" gnu source code?
From: Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1992 14:17
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,56a68b7c45085bc5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-13 06:42:56 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!zazen!psl.wisc.edu!dhoyman@sparky.fammed.wisc.edu From: dhoyman@sparky.fammed.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) Subject: Who "owns" gnu source code? Message-ID: <1992Mar13.141744.15705@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Sender: news@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Wisconsin, Family Medicine. Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 14:17:44 GMT