Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:50:24 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, "Anatoly Vorobey" <mellon@pobox.com>, "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000514205024.00898920@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <001801bfbe09$ced4d120$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il>
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At 18:06 14-05-2000 -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > PS: If I had to contest the GPL in court, one argument I would definitely >make is that the copyright on the GPL prevents people from negotiating >terms. I would probably also argue that GPL is not valid because it deliberately uses the word "copyleft". It is clearly anti-copyright, hence should not enjoy protection by copyright law. By the way, there has been a heated discussion on the Unicode list recently: Someone is proposing to have the copyleft symbol official incorporated into Unicode. Whatever that symbol is (I have never seen it). Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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