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From: Wes Groleau <no.such.user@does.not.exist.com>
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/06/26
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> <<However, that is not what people have been telling me.  Several 
> times I have been reprimanded for saying I cannot incorporate a 
> particular bit of code due to the GPL.
> 
> Huh? This is like saying you have been reprimanded for refusing to 
> make an illicit copy of proprietary software. Whoever is doing the 
> reprimanding here is either incompetent, or does not mind if their 
> company violates copyrights. What possible misconception ....
> Pretty odd!

I was referring to the many times people (via Usenet or e-mail) have 
told me I know nothing about the GPL after I put GPL's paragraph 2.b
into my own words.

A recent example (this was PRIOR to the c.l.a thread on stack traces)
was the suggestion that I use code from gdb to get a stack trace when
detecting an error.

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