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kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:
> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>  > The FSF-copyrighted programs are in little danger of being taken 
>  > "proprietary" by a corporate hoarder -- the best version of emacs is 
>  > GNUemacs;  anyone who thinks to make a pile of money from a proprietary 
>  > version based on GNU source would be crazy!  How could a company compete 
>  > with a free emacs maintained by an army of enthusiastic users with free 
>  > access to the GNU version of the source code?
> 
> The net is not ubiquitous.  People who have no access wouldn't
> know that the program they are buying is free.  A wiley company
> could lift public domain code verbatim, hoard and sell it without
> anyone being the wiser.  This is the kind of thing the GPL
> prevents.

Ah, but the GPL restrictions are not necessary to prevent this kind of thing.
The TFSF license I've been putting together should solve the problem quite
nicely without telling anybody what they may or may not do with the code.

It's that same logical error again.  "The GPL prevents this, therefore the
GPL is necessary to prevent this."


mathew

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