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From: Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/28
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In comp.lang.ada Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> In article <JWIV2.146$jw4.15391@burlma1-snr2>,
> Barry Margolin  <barmar@bbnplanet.com> wrote:
>>
>>You can use other licenses than the GPL, but they have to be compatible --
>>they can't impose additional restrictions, but they can give additional
>>freedoms.
>>
>    Just curious - what more freedoms could they give?

Please ignore my other reply, if you see it, it was a late-in-the-day
mental bobble.

For example, a license could require you make any changes
available via anonymous FTP.  It could require you to send the
copyright owner a copy of the changes so he can distribute them.

Best,
Sam Mize

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