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Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian



* Steve Langasek (vorlon@netexpress.net) [030422 08:35]:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:53:38PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > Authors have a moral right (and a legal one in some places) not to
> > have their work mutilated.

> You can assert a moral right to control how your work is used, or you
> can write Free Software.  You don't get to do both at once.

You can. The _moral_ right is compatible with free software, the
_formal_ right not. (And in some, rare cases the moral right is
ignored. mkreiserfs could be a place like that. But that doesn't stop
the moral right in general.)


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