Sender: weiqi AT smtp DOT networkusa DOT net
Message-ID: <39A470CE.A860F273@networkusa.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:48:14 -0500
From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT networkusa DOT net>
Organization: Object Computing, Inc.
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i586)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Watcom C++ opened?
References: <005701c00d17$f92da160$0500007b AT brk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Johan Henriksson wrote:
> 
> Copyrights? Why the need of copyrights, I mean if it's licensed as GPL(ie
> free), then shouldn't it be free? (*duh*). I can't remember GPL talking
> anything about copyrights...

From the GPL:
"We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
(2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
distribute and/or modify the software."

-- 
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT networkusa DOT net