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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:55:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD 
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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hi,
why would RMS sue, lets say me, for porting IBM's
piece of GPL'ed code to FreeBSD src/gnu.

What i will be doing (if the votes come out positive),
will be exactly as how his law says...


--- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message
> <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>,
> Andrew Kenneth Milt
> on writes:
> >+-------[ Terry Lambert ]----------------------
> >|
> >| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people
> distributing bipartite
> >| distributions, where the linking is delayed until
> installation to
> >| work around the letter of the GPL.  Given his
> religious convictions,
> >| I can't see him *not*.  Factor that into your
> decision.
> >
> >Just to balance this point out;
> >
> >Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of
> any significance has 
> >RMS contributed recently to this or any other
> project where this would be 
> >a consideration?
> 
> Uh, people have been signing their copyright over to
> FSF for a long
> time...
> 
> -- 
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=====
-Hiten,

Thank You,
Yours Sincerely,
Hiten Pandya,
<hiten@uk.freebsd.org>
<http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>

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