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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:56:53 +1000
From:      Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011212215653.P46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:30:29AM %2B0100
References:  <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk>

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+-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]----------------------
| In message <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milt
| on writes:
| >+-------[ Terry Lambert ]----------------------
| >|
| >| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite
| >| distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to
| >| work around the letter of the GPL.  Given his religious convictions,
| >| I can't see him *not*.  Factor that into your decision.
| >
| >Just to balance this point out;
| >
| >Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has 
| >RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be 
| >a consideration?
| 
| Uh, people have been signing their copyright over to FSF for a long
| time...

That still doesn't answer the question though. I'm pretty sure IBM didn't
sign *their* copyright over to the FSF.

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