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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/05
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Craig Spannring wrote:
> 
> Of course it gets a little muddled if the original author accepts
> patches from other people.  If the other people patched some GPL'd
> code, and the original author accepted those patches, the GPL would
> tend to infect the vendors copyrighted code.
> 

Which is the reason why the FSF always asks for papers before
accepting big patches (big in this case means patches big
enough to affect the copyright situation.)