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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/07/07
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Date: 1997-07-07T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5pndb9$4mi$1@shade.twinsun.com>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> wrote:
>les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
>> this time the issue seems to be about distributing among a small
>> circle of friends with at least an implicit agreement that none will
>> distribute additional copies.  I fail to see any philosophical difference
>> between this and selling copies with a contractual requirement not
>> to redistribute. 
>
>Your philosophy doesn't distinguish between friendship and contracts?
>Wow.  No wonder you're confused!

Time passes, management changes, the friends you thought you were
dealing with aren't there any more....  You may be confused someday
too.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com