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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/26
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In article <7g1sdh$nvo$2@netnews.upenn.edu>,
  hughett@chaplin.med.upenn.edu (Paul Hughett) wrote:
> and C can sue B for fraud.


You mean based on the failure to use the proper licensing
terms. Certainly there is no fraud involved in charging
for the software even if B got it free. This is not only
an acceptable occurrence, it is a *desirable* occurrence
in many situations.

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