Re: forwarded message from Richard Stallman

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:23:06 -0800

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:02:26 -0800, Jeff Freedman <jsf@hevanet.com> said:

Jeff> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, you wrote:
>>> Does anyone who contributed to SANE have reservations against
>>> SANE
>> becoming a GNU program? I think making SANE a GNU program would
>> be beneficial to both parties (SANE developers & FSF).
>>

Jeff> Does that mean that you couldn't have a Java front-end, or
Jeff> ports to non-GPL'd OS's like OS/2 or BE?

No, not at all. I think it says not to _recommend_ non-free programs,
but it doesn't say not to support them. Most GNU programs work even
under Win32.

--david

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