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Article #75618Re: Why is citing previous work incompatible with FSF's goals?
From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 1990 01:45
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 1990 01:45
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> I would doubt very much that FSF > intends to extend the ideology behind GPL to published works, journals, > etc. in a way expressed in Gnu AWK manual. Having talked to RMS about this, I assure you that he believes that all embodiments of "intellectual property" are fundamentally immoral. Thus, the concepts of the GPL should be extended to absolutely all works now copyrighted. He believes that property rights in physical objects are a necessary but not particularly good solution to the problem that only one person can use an object at a time. (I don't agree, but that's another matter...) Dale
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,91c70178ddb30ad2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-06-26 06:14:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!math.mit.edu!drw From: drw@pascal.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why is citing previous work incompatible with FSF's goals? Message-ID: <DRW.90Jun25214521@pascal.mit.edu> Date: 26 Jun 90 01:45:21 GMT Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Distribution: gnu Organization: MIT Dept. of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA, USA Lines: 16 Posted: Tue Jun 26 02:45:21 1990