Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: david carlton
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 19:35

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In article <FZ4ueB49w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) writes:

> 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.

If they don't let you distribute (bits of) their software that way,
why do you assume that it is a way of distributing their software that
they don't dislike?  I'd draw the opposite conclusion, myself.

david carlton
carlton@husc.harvard.edu

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