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From: mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Re: Questions about "Free Software Foundation" (long)
Message-ID: <14@cimcor.mn.org>
Date: 29 Sep 89 10:51:15 GMT
References: <110004@gore.com>
Organization: Grenier & friends, Forest Lake, MN
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From article <110004@gore.com>, by jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore):
= / comp.lang.c++ / ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) / Sep 28, 1989 /
=> Have I given these diffs to anyone?  No way; I'm not going to get lumbered
=> for the next three years with the obligation to send the FULL sources to
=> ANYONE AT ALL who asks.  (That's what the CopyLeft demands, friends.)
= 
= A pity you subjected yourself to so much trouble based on this false premise...
= 
= You DO NOT have to distribute anything to "anyone at all who asks", only to
= those people to whom you distribute the corresponding binaries.

Furthermore, you can charge a reasonable fee for the act of distribution.
You may also charge a fee to provide a warranty for the resulting new
code that you fixed. 

In the worst case, you should be able to pay someone to sit a computer and
generate copies for distribution as well as running to the post office with
the disks by charging the fee as described in section 3 and under section
4.2 of the GNU Public License, terms and conditions.

   -Mike Grenier
    mike@cimcor.mn.org