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Article #72598Re: More bogosity
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 17:49
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 17:49
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In article <1992Jan14.151210.34907@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) writes: >> Yeah, but a plain old copyright notice could do the job just as well. > >I doubt this. Look at TeX. ``Usually well informed sources'' told me >that its code is used in several places (ie, in several commercial >systems) without having the author asked for. And there *is* a >copyright. Even worse, there were and are systems out calling So? This has nothing to do with copyright vs copyleft, it has to do with violation of copyright - which, incidentally gets done with GNU code too. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/497-2922 | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,4eea5e9da426f8d9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-19 05:41:05 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!peregrine!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!bu2.bu.edu!bu.edu!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: More bogosity Message-ID: <1992Jan16.174931.9305@alphalpha.com> Date: 16 Jan 92 17:49:31 GMT References: <9BmHeB14w164w@mantis.co.uk> <1992Jan14.151210.34907@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> Organization: none Lines: 18