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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!141.211.63.150!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!usenet From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: GPL Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 09:20:13 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 7 Message-ID: <32FB3A1D.5C2B@umich.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F167BB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <0rnuc5.3e1.ln@zen> <5cvodo$hme@omega.gmd.de> <5db0q8$1f6i@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <5dd2mc$ad5@omega.gmd.de> Reply-To: tmwatson@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: aha399.ccs.itd.umich.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156966 comp.os.linux.networking:67686 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82919 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2386 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52213 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266480 Holger Veit wrote: > - A "license agreement" of the type "you may use it, but the media and > any bit of data on it still belongs to us, and if you don't behave correctly, > we'll request both back" is accordingly invalid. Hmm, IBM made a lot of their early software money on software and hardware rentals...