Law suits and thoughts on Library restrictions.

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From: Will Athanasiou
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 17:10

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There are a lot of rumors going around about lawsuits initiated by either the
LPF (League For Programming Freedom) and the FSF (Free Software Foundation)
against various companies.

The latest one I heard involves NeXT and their use of G++ to build their
operating system.  Has anyone heard anything about this?  Can anyone
substantiate this rumor, one way or the other?

Are there any other lawsuits filed?  And what is their status?  

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On another issue, I read in the GNU news letter that FSF (Stallman?) is thinking
of changing the restrictions on the GNU libraries.  Could someone either post
the section of the News letter that describes the changes planned or mail me a
copy of the News letter.  Or, you could just tell me where the News letters are
archived. 

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Subject: Law suits and thoughts on Library restrictions.
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