Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 23:00

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

   > 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.  We use the GPL to stop it.

But, we have no objection to the *USE* of the software.

	-mib

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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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