Re: R. e: ITU document server now costs money

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Wed, 26 July 1995 16:35 UTC

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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To: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
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In-Reply-To: Karl Auerbach's message of Wed, 26 Jul 1995 09:12:10 -0700 (PDT), <Pine.SUN.3.91.950726085817.589C-100000@pax.cavebear.com>
Subject: Re: R. e: ITU document server now costs money
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   Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 09:12:10 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>

   I'm not so much enamored with "public domain" as with "free use".  In
   other words, I don't care if a document contains materials which are
   "owned" by someone as long as everyone has the ability to freely use
   the ideas and to elaborate upon them.

I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but I understand that the
Free Software Foundation's legal agreement that people sign when they
turn over software ownership to the FSF stipulates as part of the
agreement that the FSF, and its successors, are specifically barred from
ever restricting the free use of the software.

If there was a way that people who were going to be handing control of
their documents to the ISOC such that the ISOC's hands were permanently
bound from ever trying to charge for the documents, that might satisfy
people's wishes.

						- Ted