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From: t...@stein2.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,alt.security.pgp
Subject: Re: GPL not bypassed
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Date: 7 Jul 93 02:34:46 GMT
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In article <rwm.741983...@atronx.ocunix.on.ca> rmcor...@ccs.carleton.ca writes:
>  If it were not for the GPL, I likely would not have bothered releasing the
>software at all - Of what benifit would it be to me to write documentation
>or to spend the time to release if there is no way for me to get anything
>in return?  Everyone has a goal when they write software, and when I think
>strongly about what I am doing, releasing my work so that people would
>benifit from my work with no 'returning of the favour' would just not cut
>it.

What about end users?  How do they return the favor when they use your
software?
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the Year Book of 1484 written in Medieval Latin and references thereto.  The
State provided no translation and conceded a total lack of knowledge of what it
meant.  The motion is granted"  396 A.2d 1054                       --Tim Smith