Re: All Flesh is Straw

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From: David Vinayak Wallace
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 1990 23:50

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   Date: 19 Aug 90 07:30:37 GMT
   From: david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp)
   References: <GUMBY.90Apr30031416@Cygnus.COM>

   >It turns out that the README file lacks a GPL pointer, and that
   >someone who is lucky enough to be able to install it with no problems
   >and without reading the Makefile (step 3 says "Read carefully the
   >comments at the top of the Makefile" -- which contains at the top a
   >pointer to the GPL) could just possibly avoid learning that there is a
   >public license.  This will be rectified in the next distribution.

   I believe that in the absence of the GPL, the user has NO RIGHTS
   WHATSOEVER to distribute copies.

This is very odd -- a reply in August to a message I sent in April.  
I was replying to a complaint that it was possible to install the
software without being pointed at the GPL.  The GPL was in the
distribution; there was just no line in the README file telling the
user to look at it.  Hence there was an infinitesimal chance that
someone could get the software running without seeing the GPL, or a
pointer to it.

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Subject: Re: All Flesh is Straw
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