Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Lieutenant 030
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 19:00

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mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
> In article <uZ4oeB12w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible
> 
>    OK, so why should I be so excited about the GNU project?  I'm
>    willing to give away programs I have written for free.  Yet I'm not
>    allowed to use GNU software if I'm going to do so.  That makes it
>    no better than commercially licensed software from a free software
>    point of view.
> 
> This is not so.  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.


mathew

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Subject: Re: Too Good to be True?
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