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Question About General Public License

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From: Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1991 00:49
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   Date: 31 Jul 91 21:38:07 GMT
   Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
   From: hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens)
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   In article <nheu.0471@heuvax.wimsey.bc.ca> nheu@heuvax.wimsey.bc.ca (Norman Heu) writes:
   >A quick question.. if I release a program I write under the GNU
   >General Public License, must I include the source?
   >	-Norm

No, but you must offer to make the source available for a reasonable
distribution fee.  There are other options too.  See the GPL for
details.

   Another question on the GPL: if I release a program under the GPL, can
   I call it GNU-something-or-other, or is the GNU designation "reserved"
   for programs with copyright owned by the FSF?  Any opinions or
   definitive answers?  (It's not an entirely hypothetical question at
   the moment, though the program in question is still much too shaky to
   release).

FSF and the GNU Project request that you ask us (via
gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu) before designating a program as "GNU"
something-or-other.  It's the right thing to do and will avoid a lot
of confusion later on.

thanx -len
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