From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471377597 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fjucn$k4p$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <7fkl3v$1e2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fl5ac$9sh$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fl9q5$ab7@drn.newsguy.com> <7foo6s$qbm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <37209ca6.1133249@news.pacbell.net> <7fudch$hsv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3723c38b@eeyore.callnetuk.com> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de 925157406 1026 192.168.0.1 (26 Apr 1999 20:10:06 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Apr 1999 20:10:06 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-26T20:10:06+00:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" writes: > Please accept my apologies if this point: has been previously discussed to > death; is actually trivial, naive, or sophistic; is considered inappropriate > to comp.lang.ada or gnu.misc.discuss. I think it has. AFAIK that's one of the reasons why the FSF requires a copyright assignment for software which is part of the GNU Project.