Date:	Sat, 25 Feb 1995 07:23:34 +0900
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc:	DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	RSX is great and the point of freeware is questioned...

   Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp> wrote (Subject: RSX is
   great and the point of freeware is questioned...):-

     In the djgpp sources, and likely elsewhere, I find that a wordy
   licence and copyright (or `copyleft') at the start of each of a
   great lot of (often quite short) *.CC and *.C and *.H files add up
   to a BIG amount of extra text! Once when my PC was short of space,
   I went through my djgpp sources and edited out all the licences. 
   That freed a LOT!!!!! of my scarce hard disk space.  Why can't
   djgpp have a directory C:\DJGPP\LICENCES\*.* containing one copy of
   each different sort of licence? Then each licenced *.CC and *.C and
   *.H file need only have a single line of comment saying e.g.:-

   /*** For conditions of use of this file see file
   DJGPP\LICENCES\LIC-A.TXT ***/

Maybe that would be enough, and maybe it wouldn't.  The FSF has
lawyers, and they see fit to put that stuff in.  *You* pay for some
more lawyers, and maybe they'll change their policy.

In the meantime, *don't* tell us about it---go ask Bill Gates what
stands between him and the soup line (he thinks it's a copyright,
obviously, just ask the "look-and-feel" defendents), and Dennis Erlich
where 200MB of his data went (the Church of Scientology destroyed it
under protection of a warrant obtained under the pretext that he had
violated there copyright), and Julf of anon.penet.fi why he's feeling
raped---after all, all he had to do was give up one name ("Dennis L.
Erlich") under a similar warrant.

*Copyright* is a game played in the big leagues by big boys.  They
play for keeps.  Bill Gates is a billionaire.  So is the Church of
Scientology.  Ex-Scientologist friends of mine have scars to show for
their experience.

If you think this is rough, you should see the ~300 lines I saw fit
*not* to post.

Yours, in a really bad mood today 'cause friends of *mine* got burned

-- 
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