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Article #72289Re: what are acceptable compromises?
From: Ken Arromdee
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 20:33
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 20:33
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In article <RSW.92Feb25035953@delay.cs.brown.EDU> rsw@cs.brown.EDU (Bob Weiner) writes:
>mathew@mantis.co.uk (nameless bandwidth consumer) writes:
>
>> The GNU project started because people were fed up with having
>> restrictions placed on what they could do with the code they had. So
>> now they release code which STILL has restrictions on what you can do
>> with it -- just DIFFERENT restrictions.
>Let's look at just how restrictive this GPL stuff is that we should concern
>ourselves with it.
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mathew is arguing that the GPL imposes restrictions. You are replying "but
these are _good_, _nice_ restrictions". How is this relevant?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,c1e13a8fc31fc719 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-02-25 16:21:54 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!blaze.cs.jhu.edu!arromdee From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) Subject: Re: what are acceptable compromises? Message-ID: <1992Feb25.203315.27052@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept. References: <1992Feb21.014011.17656@uunet.uu.net> <c0HNgB8w164w@mantis.co.uk> <RSW.92Feb25035953@delay.cs.brown.EDU> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 20:33:15 GMT Lines: 20