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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/29
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:

>... Actually people are always a bit surprised
> that when you put something in the PD, it is perfectly
> OK for someone to take it, make a minor change, copyright
> the result, and sell it as a proprietary program.

Having done so, does this restrict anyone's right to use the original
work as they see fit?  Or is the person who copyrighted the result
merely copyrighting the "derived work"?  Or merely the changes?

- Bob
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