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Subject: Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive
From: Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:28:50 +0900
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

> >> It's obvious that GPL software is free
> > That depends on what you mean by "free".
>  
> It's at least as free as other kinds of copyrighted freeware.
> Usually it's more free, since a lot of other kinds of copyrighted
> software don't give you access to the source code.

Some people would argue that GPLed software is not as free as
BSD-licensed software. Epic flamewars have been waged over this
in the Linux and BSD newsgroup

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net

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