🚀 go-pugleaf

coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes:
> Interestingly, you could write a virus and reuse all the FSF code you
> wanted, as long as you provided source code (somehow; embedding it in
> the virus would be quite clever, while just posting it to the net might
> suffice).

I can just imagine it...

C:\> invader 

Your computer has been infected by the GNU Public Virus.  Source code has
been copied to C:\VIRUS.C.  All your .EXE files have been modified to use
GNU Public Virus code; they therefore now all fall under the GNU Public
License and you must provide source code for them.

Please send copies of the source code to all your programs to the Free
Software Foundation at the following address: ...


mathew

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