Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Lieutenant 030
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 13:01

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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> In article <BTJBFB3w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) w
> >In what sense is software encumbered by copyright messages and legal 
> >obligations "liberated"?
>
> The software has those "obligations" attached to it so it can be liberated,
> so it will not be imprisoned by the likes of you.

How could I imprison non-GPL public domain software?

The GPL doesn't give any freedom to software which it wouldn't have anyway if
it were in the public domain.


mathew

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Subject: Re: Too Good to be True?
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