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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>, jason-tuhs@shalott.net
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] ksh88 source code?
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:18:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_RWb9E1UZ8V+V-G14vLdDO15koc=f49cbkrJMhPYx1t8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211223174429.GD24180@mcvoy.com>


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On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 12:44 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

+100%.  The FSF has a nasty habit of just taking over GPLed software and
> acting like they produced.  Groff is an example, there are lots of others.


How's that?  James Clark donated the groff copyright to the FSF in
1991, and they released it under the GPL 1.0 or later (since upgraded).
It's as much theirs as any software is anybody's.

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2021-12-23 16:14               ` John Cowan
2021-12-23 17:33                 ` Warner Losh
2021-12-23 17:44                   ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 18:18                     ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-12-24  3:46 Rudi Blom
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2021-12-22 14:51 ` Adam Thornton

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