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SubjectRe: RMS at it again *sigh*
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Roger Espel Llima wrote:

> Re-read the article, he explicitly says that for libraries like glibc
> the LGPL makes sense. He's arguing for GPL for "special utility"
> libraries like readline or GMP (which are both under GPL already, AFAIK).
>
> In other words, he's preaching to the converted, which isn't a bad thing
> to do anyway.

It's nice to know that GMP is GPLed, but the GPL doesn't mean squat when
the author wont enforce it.

SSH 2.x which is now propritary included GMP, but they went so far as to
search and replace varible names and strip off copyright notices.



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