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carlton@husc10.harvard.edu (david carlton) writes:
> In article <c0HNgB8w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (From A to
> B) 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.
[...]
> I don't understand.  If you release "TFSF" code into anything other
> than the public domain, don't you fall prey to your own attacks in the
> first sentence?

No.  The aim is to release code under a license which does not restrict
what you may do with the code, how you may distribute it, or anything like
that.


mathew

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