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Re: [PATCHES] 21.3.50 for Cygwin: patch 7


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] 21.3.50 for Cygwin: patch 7
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:14:57 -0800

> From: Joe Buehler <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:30:07 -0500

> > So if the file has been changed "outside" FSF, we require papers!
> 
> Could someone point me to an explanation of all this?

See, for example

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/408/1985/7/0/2154410/

where Karen Kolling reported in 1985 how Unipress was obstructing
people from using GNU Emacs freely, citing their copyright claims on
parts of the code written by James Gosling.  The papers that you sign
are designed to prevent these sorts of difficulties from happening in
the future.



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