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To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: non-gcc linux?
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 05 Nov 2000 23:34:02 -0700
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Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 23:42:25 +0100, Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:06:37PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> >> for SGI, or SGI would have to be willing to assign some code to FSF.
> > 
> > Which is the standard procedure that the FSF requires for all it's
> > programs to be able to defend them
> 
> ... or sell them under a different license. Not that they would, but they
> could, if they really wanted to.

The wording of the standard copyright assignment to the FSF binds the
FSF so that it can only release the code under a free software
license.

Eric
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