🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <NELSON.91Feb2105049@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:
>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.

You may use an encyclopedia, dictionary, or other reference book, and use
the facts contained therein without acknowledging or paying the authors of
the book.  You may not copy entire pieces of the book, this is true; but I
have no problems with that.

Because of the way laws for software are set up, if I take some GNU code,
study it, and reimplement it, the FSF could very likely end up owning it,
and dictating what I am allowed and not allowed to do with it.

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