# anyone ever gotten xerox to clarify the MOO license before?

Eric Mercer (mercere@netcom.ca)
Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:46:43 PST

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    At 06:52 PM 1/08/97 -0600, Robert J. Brown wrote:
    >My suggestion regarding the GPL had to to with the condition in the
    >GPL that derivitive works inherit the same terms as the original work,
    >not that they weren't copyrightable.  This would mean that MOO would
    >have to be freely available *WITH SOURCES* because it was derived from
    >an original GPLed work.

    Ah! I understand you now.  Yeah, you're right.  Under the GNU/Free Software
    Foundation's General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>,
    Xerox would be obligated to make the server software available for free.
    For folk's reference, the relevant section is:

        3.
          2. You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole
             or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
    thereof,
             to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the
             terms of this License.

    It works for me.  :)
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