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In article <3naetsssj178oshk3v31gnk66ho6nh95r5@news.newsguy.com>,
Paul Guertin  <pg@sff.net> wrote:
 
> 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.
 
>> but is it also copyrighted?
> 
> Unequivocally yes. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html .
>   
> Paul Guertin
> pg@sff.net
 
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