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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6398 comp.os.linux:11692 comp.unix.bsd:6065 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!burley From: burley@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects Message-ID: <BURLEY.92Oct4011851@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: 4 Oct 92 05:18:51 GMT References: <1akqadINN76c@almaak.usc.edu> <1992Oct3.220517.1325@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Oct3.221703.1496@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 26 In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 3 Oct 92 22:17:03 GMT In article <1992Oct3.221703.1496@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: o Potential legal costs if UCB, CMU, or GNU get upset about you selling their code (GNU is real uptight about this, and CMU and UCB could easily get uptight if AT&T can prove licence violation, one of the charages against UCB). What evidence do you have that "GNU is real uptight about [someone else selling their code]?" It'd be kind of strange for them to be uptight about something they went to a fair amount of trouble to explicitly permit in the licenses for their software. (I've seen a lot of free software that simply says "can't be distributed for commercial gain" -- the GPL has no such restriction.) If you don't have any actual, hard evidence that Project GNU has ever hassled somebody for _selling_ GNU code (as in charging for distributing GNU code and/or programs to customers), please just say so, and don't start a flame war. A case where Project GNU (really the FSF) hassled someone because they wanted to distribute GNU-derived code with _different_ (especially more restrictive) licensing agreements for a fee does not count, of course, but that should be obvious given the context. -- James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF)