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- From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
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- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.052311.21629@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 05:23:11 GMT
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- In article <C0B34q.Ax0@news.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
- >If you are complaining that the GPL does not grant you the right
- >to "proprietary use of the source code", well, that's tough.
- >
- >The only sense of the word "proprietary" that is applicable here
- >would be "made and marketed by by one having the exclusive right
- >to manufacture and sell" (Webster's 7th Collegiate).
-
- That's just plain not true. One can not use the source code
- in any way other than infecting it with the GPL; this is far
- more limiting than preventing a programmer from using GPLed
- code in a proprietary project. In particular, one cannot use
- GPLed code in the least proprietary projects of all: public
- domain software. This is a real restriction in the freedom
- of a programmer who wants to use GNU software to the fullest;
- I'll leave it to Mikhail and the rest of you to decide whether
- this restriction is inconsistent with the use of the word "free".
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