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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- References: <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:22:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >The way I see it, the use of GNU places me under a legal obligation to
- >the FSF; on the other hand, as a certified misanthrope with no ready
- >ftp access, I have no way to obtain a copy for nothing.
-
- I know, this is the third or fourth article in this thread in which I'm
- saying the same thing, but then I'm still not anywhere near Michael's
- volume of repetitive rhetoric, so here goes...
-
- READ THE BLOODY LICENSE!
-
- "The use of GNU" does NOT place you under any legal obligation to
- anyone or anything. Only the redistribution of GNU places you under
- legal obligations to the copyright holder, the FSF.
-
- >TOB:
- >>In any case, the CopyLeft license can be easily obtained and read (As I'm
- >>sure you have), so I can't believe anyone is truly misled.
- >
- >Consider a career as a copywriter; you have the right approach. On
- >second thought, even that profession does not call for a small print
- >explanation that the "Care Free" menstrual pads will not *really* live
- >up to the insouciantly autarchic implications of their trade name.
-
- The above paragraph is apparently devoid of semantic content. Equally
- apparent is that either Michael did not in fact read the GNU Public
- License, or he first translated it into a similarly content-free
- intermediate representation.
-
- --
- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
- Northampton, MA, USA
-