Re: Specialized software

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From: Raul Rockwell
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1991 02:28

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Dan Bernstein:
   We're talking about software that isn't distributed widely, right?
   Those of you who are arguing that the GPL works reasonably well for
   such software: have you considered that the GPL is absolutely
   pointless for such software? Nobody benefits from putting the GPL
   on specialized code.  None of the reasons for the GPL make sense
   for specialized code. Does anyone see a valid reason to limit or
   waive copyrights in this case?

Eh?  How can you write a significant program without including some
general purpose code in it?

Personally, I find that I tend to reuse code quite a bit across
independent projects.  Hell, currently I'm working on half a dozen
"different" pieces of specialized software that all use the same code.
(Yeah, they're related -- the way find, tar, rcs and rn are.  The
point is that they're application specific, thus "custom").

On the other hand, for the stuff I'm working on, GPL wouldn't make a
whit of difference -- even binaries are never distributed.  :-(

-- 
Raul <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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From: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell)
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Subject: Re: Specialized software
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