PD != Copyleft; compatible?

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From: Richard L. Goerwitz
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 19:13

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Let's say someone is working on PD code (specified as such by government
grant terms), and this person wants to use GNU code.  Does the GNU copy-
right need to be carried over verbatim into the PD code?  I.e. to use it
must one forego PD status, and violate the terms of the grant (i.e. is it
impossible to use GNU code under such circumstances)?

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   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer

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