Free Software Law Center and the FSF repudiated the GPL

[Alexander Terekhov]

Just a subject change. Unpaid GNUtian volunteers without money*** might 
want to notice and comment. TIA.

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> 
> [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/publications/msvatt.pdf]
> 
> Toward the end, arch legal GNU beagle Eben eloquently states:
> 
> "Thus, this Court's precedent repeatedly sets out that software, which
> is nothing more than a set of instructions -- an algorithm -- to be
> performed by a computer in order to solve some mathematical problem,
> is ..."
> 
> According to the US Copyright Office, Copyright protection is not
> available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods,
> concepts, ...
> 
> So... copyright protection is not available for software as defined by
> arch legal GNU beagle Eben.
> 
> GPL? Who is GPL?

regards,
alexander.

***) http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html (courtesy of GNUtian 
ciaran: <http://google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/0ca99d760cb6903e>)

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