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Re: LPGL (was "GCC2 merging")
- To: rms at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: LPGL (was "GCC2 merging")
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 98 10:31:16 EDT
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com, gcc2 at gnu dot org
There's no special benefit in uniformity for this, so I wouldn't
strain the wording just for the sake of uniformity.
There is a benefit when one is trying to convince a commercial entity to use
software which has these copyright notices since their lawyers will often
want to look at everything very carefully and the fewer different wordings
there are, the easier that task will be. Lawyers can get needlessly
suspicious when things look similar but slightly different.