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Re: Free Software Users == dupes ?

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From: Karl Denninger
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 1990 20:43
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In article <MELLON.90Apr14113551@fenris.pa.dec.com> mellon@fenris.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) writes:
>
>>If there is enough interest, I will repost details of my argument why the
>>provision in the GPL requiring one to make available source code for one's
>>own programs is unenforceable.
>
>I would guess that there is much a much larger portion of the user
>community that would vote against you posting such information (I'm
>assuming that you're a professional expert in Intellectual Property
>law; otherwise, it would be speculation) than would vote for it.

PROVIDING the original poster is willing to state his/her credentials, I
would like to hear this argument.

I would hope the original poster is a legal-type well-versed in this 
area of law.

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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Free Software Users == dupes ?
Summary: I disagree; let's hear it
Message-ID: <1990Apr14.204315.11655@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 90 20:43:15 GMT
References: <2449@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <970010@gore.com> <NELSON.90Mar27220308@image.clarkson.edu> <1990Mar28.045234.27003@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <MIKE.90Mar28135129@turing.cs.unm.edu> <804@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> <6176@brazos.Rice.edu> <2852@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <MELLON
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