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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:17:24 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        jcwells@u.washington.edu, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fascinating GPL License 8)
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990218191626.00cc76a0@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199902122302.QAA23640@usr01.primenet.com>
References:  <4.1.19990212154305.04be99d0@mail.lariat.org>

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At 11:02 PM 2/12/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
 
>If anything, the lack of a requirement to assign license to "The
>FreeBSD Project, Inc." or some other single entity, and the
>number of unassigned incorporated programs is what makes the
>list so large, were you to trigger the advertising clause.

True. But on the other hand, the FSF asks that all copyrights
be assigned to it, and look what happens: the software becomes
part of the GNU Blob.

--Brett

"When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy 
is to dismount. But lawyers have other strategies, including buying 
a stronger whip, changing riders ... declaring that the horse is 
better, faster and cheaper dead, and, finally, harnessing several 
dead horses together for increased speed." 

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, quoted in The Wall Street Journal


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