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Re: publicity ...

>pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu (Ben Pfaff)  wrote on 16.02.97 in <m0vwA6Q-0002ecC@pfaff>:
>
>> >On Sat, Feb 15 1997 16:25 +0100 "Orn E. Hansen" writes:
>> >> So, free in future may just as well be associated with software, that has
>> >> been recoded by a foundation to be able to strip the original authors of
>> >> any rights to the code, so it can be commercial.
>> >
>> >That's why we use the GPL.
>>
>> The GPL can't protect from this sort of attack--as with any sort of
>> copyright protection, it can't cover what the program does or how it
>> acts (it's not a patent).  It just ensures that the specific code base
>> of the program is never made nonfree.  If someone recodes the program
>> then that recoded version can certainly be kept nonfree.
>
>Somehow I fail to see how writing an equivalent program could be an  
>"attack" worth losing sleep over.
>
>For us, that is. After all, we (meaning the free software crowd) have been  
>doing exactly that to them (the non-free software crowd) since the  
>beginning.
>
>Remember, this is essentially what Linux is to Unix, what gcc is to cc,  
>and so on.

I guess I was unclear.  I just meant that the comment (by whom, I can
no longer remember) that "that's why we use the GPL" was incorrect
because in fact the GPL doesn't protect against recoding "so it can be
commercial."
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