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From: Isaac@yellow.submarine.pla (Isaac)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/08/15
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In article <m24t8vw0c9.fsf@devo.ridgenet.net>, Ronald Cole wrote:
>
>So, if one of your "wavefront" customers started giving me copies and
>I proceeded to make them available for anonymous ftp, you wouldn't
>retaliate?
>
>Are there any wavefront clients that would like to test this bold
>assertion out?

I suspect you are the one person on earth least likely to get this 
code.  My understanding is that the GPL assures me that if I get a
binary from GPL'd code that I like, no one can keep me from sharing it
with my friends or getting the source and modifying it to my liking.  
These is the freedom the manifesto talks about and the GPL tries to assure.


How many friends have you made in the GNAT community?

Isaac