[Gllug] Talk by Richard Stallman in London, 12 Feb

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On 26 Jan 2002, Timothy Coggins uttered the following:
> On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 16:24, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> 
>> eventually settled. Actually he [RMS] got himself sufficiently worked up to
>> endorse piracy of software in no uncertain terms. Considering the audience I
> 
> That's a bit of a bombshell. RMS has no respect for the copyright laws
> that he says keeps his software free (most of us would say open).

Er, he's always admitted that the GPL is an attempt to construct a
copyrightless society within a copyrighted one.

I have no respect for the copyright law either (or most of the rest of
`intellectual property' law), as currently framed --- but, again, if we
don't follow them we get in trouble, so...

> Anyway.. I'm off to re-badge and sell binaries of gcc under the name
> tc-cc:)

Feel free, as long as you provide a pointer to the source code as the
GPL requires.

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