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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/29
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In article <7g80tn$pbt@news1.newsguy.com>,
  Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> wrote:
> 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.

These are additional restrictions, and are clearly
incompatible with the GPL, which does not allow additional
restrictions to be added.

Indeed the second, the requirement to send the copyright
owner a copy, is quite an unacceptable requirement, which
would make such a license fail to qualify as free software.

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