Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?

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From: Industrial Poet
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1991 13:05

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baud@eedsp.gatech.edu (Kurt Baudendistel) writes:
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> 2. Software that is ``free of encumbrances'' is being sold by the FSF and
>    others. This is accomplished by the GNU [Library] General Public License
>    ([GL]GPL) or ``copyleft''.

False.  The GPL, GLPL and copyleft are themselves legal encumberances,
stating what the user may and may not do with the software.

Software that is ``free of encumbrances'' is Public Domain software.

What the GPL protects is that the software is ``freely redistributable'', and
that other programs using bits of GNU code are also distributed on the same
basis.

mathew

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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet)
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Subject: Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?
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