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Re: Is the GPL free?



On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:27:41PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> I was wondering about the GPL and its restrictions. Not the GPL programs, but
> the GPL license text itself.

Licenses cannot be themselves free and still mean anything.  They're legal
documents and as such need to be unchanging.  The correct solution is to
let it be.

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