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| From: | Stephen J. Turnbull |
| Subject: | Re: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs? |
| Date: | Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:53:26 +0900 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) |
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
David> And the sad thing about it is that people will tend to read
David> the GPL because they would feel insecure about what their
David> choices might entail and what they will subject themselves
David> to making either.
Heh. My bet is that if they're ordinary users, they'll be peeved at
being tricked into reading the GPL to decide which button to push, and
discovering that it doesn't tell them! when they were planning on
ignoring any legal restrictions on use and redistribution in any case.
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