Re: GPL Liscensing on New Release: What Gives?

• To: Tony Taylor <T_Taylor@att.net>
• Subject: Re: GPL Liscensing on New Release: What Gives?
• From: "Jon M. Taylor" <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
• Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:52:38 -0800 (PST)
• cc: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
• In-Reply-To: <19990119213142.EMJI1144@micron>

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Tony Taylor wrote:

> I thought I did:
> 
> In order to keep academia respected, 

	Why should academia be respected?  And what gives you the right 
to say what does and does not constitute respect?

> it should stay out of the politics of
> the commercial world.  

	Since when does the GPL have anything to do with the commercial
world?

> When public universities start acting like private
> enterprise, they are no longer public universities. 

	You are about fifty years too late to be getting worked up about
that.

> Publicly funded work
> results should not be allowed to be encumbered.

	Fine.  Write your congressman or something.  In the meantime,
*please* take this bull$#!+ to another forum or to private e-mail.  I am
subscribed to many Linux-related mailing lists, and each time someone
starts a GPL-related flamewar on one of them my inbox doubles in size. 
The proper place for this type of discussion is news:gnu.misc.discuss.

Jon

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