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Re: why the library license

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From: Sean Eric Fagan
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 17:58
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In article <9106292205.AA19330@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
>Or, less blatantly unreasonable, they say our
>work is not "really free"--because it requires them to respect
>freedoms of others which they would rather be free to deny.  (You
>might as well say that a society is not "really free" unless people
>are free to own slaves.)  Of course, the software these people write
>isn't "really free" or free at all, but somehow the same standard
>doesn't apply to them.

Of course, we should ignore, in this discussion, those people who write
truly free code (Public Domain) yet refuse to use GNU code because they do
not want *their* code being inflicted with a liscense they consider morally
repugnant.  After all, bringing up those people into the discussion would
harm your point.

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Subject: Re: why the library license
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