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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!laphroaig!cflatter From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Position on GPL and GNU softwa Message-ID: <1992Dec3.001808.23200@nrao.edu> Sender: news@nrao.edu Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu Organization: NRAO References: <SCOTTM.92Dec2111009@intime.intime.com> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 00:18:08 GMT Lines: 13 In article 92Dec2111009@intime.intime.com, scottm@intime.intime.com (Scott Michel) writes: >This isn't a bad idea at all, but even GNU has been pretty litigious. They >lost a court fight against Lotus earlier in the year, claiming that a Unix >port of 1-2-3 was now public because it incorporated a "public" library >(it was libc), and since the library was copylefted, therefore the entire >piece of software was. I don't think that this is true (but I'm willing to be persuaded if someone can produce a reference). Chris Flatters cflatter@nrao.edu