CoL49 - tangentially related tidbit

[Michael Bailey]

those GNU guys are hip to Yoyodyne, that Gnomovision is an example
program used to demonstrate how to promulgate copyleft material, in
the GPL, the canonical free software license



On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Recently I felt I had to try out openSUSE, a Linux distribution, scrolled
> through the license agreement and found this funny bit:
>
>
> Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
> 'Gnomovision'   (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
>
> signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989   Ty Coon, President of Vice
>
>
> Has this been mentioned before?
>
> Thomas
>
>



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