Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Lieutenant 030
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 15:59

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mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
> In article <FZ4ueB49w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) 
> 
> 
>    > You can use GNU software all you want.  What you
>    > cannot do is distribute GNU software in ways the FSF dislikes.
> 
>    That's not true either.  If I write a program which includes some GNU
>    software and distribute it with source for only the GNU bits, then I'm not
>    distributing GNU software in ways the FSF dislikes.  Yet I'm not allowed
>    to do that.
> 
> Huh?  That, most definitely, *IS* distributing GNU software in ways
> the FSF dislkes.  Most assuredly.  We dislike the distribution of
> derivatives of our software in ways that don't preserve the free
> nature of the code.

But it does preserve the "free" nature of the code.  All the code which was
"free" is still "free".

Think of another excuse.


mathew

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