Re: If not, write to the Free Software Foundation... (fwd)
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Forwarded message from Richard Stallman:
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:22:09 -0700
From: Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu>
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
To: sanvila@unex.es
Subject: Re: If not, write to the Free Software Foundation...
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., [follows FSF's postal address]
This is to tell the users how to obtain the text of the GPL or to
complain?
In the first case, nowadays, would not be more appropiate to say
"if not, you may obtain it from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/..."; ?
There is no harm in saying that TOO. But not everyone is on
the Internet, so the snail address is important.
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.
There is no harm in saying that TOO.
Do you think that the "You should have received a copy of the GNU General
Public License..." part could be removed, then?
That would cause real problems. These programs can run on other
systems too. If someone gets the source from Debian, and builds it on
some other system, that reference won't work.
These are the reasons why we don't give permission for removing any
part of these notices, in FSF-copyrighted programs.
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Thanks.
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