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Re: LYNX-DEV SSLynx


From: Greg Stark
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV SSLynx
Date: 05 Feb 1998 00:10:34 -0500

address@hidden (Philip Webb) writes:
> some basic questions which don't seem to have been asked here before:

You can be pretty sure any issue like this has been asked and debated ad
nauseum on gnu.misc.discuss. 

1 Copyrights are defined by the Berne convention which just about every nation
under the sun is a signatory of. The various laws implementing the convention
do vary though.

2 The FSF doesn't own the rights to everything which is under the GPL, just
the Gnu project stuff like Gcc, Emacs. For projects like Lynx the various
authors own the copyrights.

The FSF isn't going to prosecute someone because they tried to release
software under a free license but messed it up by altering the GPL in some
contradictory way. But if the author tried to stop someone else from violating
the license he might have trouble if they point out legal problems with it.

greg

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