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Subject: Re: Leen Ammeraal's 'Queen' in direct violation of GPL license

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 22:50:48 05/02/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 19:54:41, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 02, 2000 at 17:28:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>[snip]
>>Either Leen must stop distributing Queen immediately, publish its
>>sources, or seperate the book from the main executable.
>>
>>Considering the potential interest in the sources and the educational
>>value of them, I hope Leen chooses the second option.
>
>Leen has already stated that he intends to distribute the source code.
>
>There are others who have taken GPL code and not published the source over a
>much longer period of time.

May be true, but that does not make it more legal/right.

I pointed this out because I believe Leen is unaware of the implications
of using a GPL'ed opening book in his software.

--
GCP



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