🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9966@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

   In article <GUMBY.91Jan31091900@Cygnus.COM> gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) writes:
   >Most people don't seem to mind that their town has a public library.
   >Nobody seems to complain and say "well I want to have a
   >meeting/concert/whatever in this nice big library here -- why should
   >the librarians object?"  Or how about "why won't they let me keep
   >books as long as I want?"

   Flawed analogy.  Public libraries do not attempt to control what I do with,
   say, a book I write using their resources (e.g., using an encyclopedia
   contained within the library).

The authors of the encyclopedia would be more than a little upset if you
included part of their encyclopedia in your book.  The FSF will let you
use their copyrighted works without asking them (unlike the encyclopedists)
if you obey certain rules.

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