Re: GPL and Public Domain

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 12:16

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In article <146cFB8w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) writes:
>That's the funny thing.  The GNU supporters complain that commercial
>software developers are restricting usage of their software.  They then
>go and do exactly the same thing themselves.

Not quite.  The GNU supporters complain that commercial software developers
don't let them share the software with each other.  Copylefting software
encourages sharing of it and derivatives of it.  The only people who can't
participate in this sharing are developers who want to create derivatives
that don't pass on the sharability gene.
-- 
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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