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Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL



Maybe at this point, what's really needed is something -stricter- than the
GPL. Companies are already starting to walk all over the spirit-- if not
the letter-- of the GPL...just one idea, eh?

On 1 Dec 1999, Henning Makholm wrote:

> Caspian <caspian@twu.net> writes:
> 
> > I'd just like to state that if anyone out there is interested in making a
> > completely, utterly free software GNU/Linux dist, with a license that
> > prohibits putzen like those at Corel from pulling the sort of nonsense
> > they've been pulling,
> 
> Note that you won't be able to include any GPLed software in your
> distribution if you want to make restrictions about how and when
> other people or corporations are allowed to redistribute it.
> 
> -- 
> Henning Makholm                                   "Hør, hvad er det egentlig
>                                           der ikke kan blive ved med at gå?"
> 


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