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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/05/06
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In article <7gqjpa$9cp$1@eyry.econ>,
  hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu (Richard E. Hawkins Esq.) wrote:

> Also, RMS's opinion on what is valid weighs in at about five billion
> and one--after every one else on the planet. In interpreting
> a document, the opinion of the author is the *very* last thing
> to consider.  For that matter, general contract principles call
> for interpreting any ambiguity *against* the author.

Well I would not be so quick to assume this. After all the GPL
was reviewed by lawyers whose retainer *was* paid :-)

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