Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Lieutenant 030
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 15:44

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carlton@husc8.harvard.edu (david carlton) writes:
> In article <FZ4ueB49w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030)
> > 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?

They don't care if I distribute a couple of routines taken from a GNU program
under the GPL, if I do so in order to use them with some other routines
under the GPL.  Why when the status of the other non-GNU-sourced routines
is changed does the objection suddenly start?


mathew

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