On Feb 18, 1999, Alexander Nicolaou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In other words, if the transitive closure of all your users and their
> users are all using the software for research, you can distribute it
> freely and without payment or validation by Sun.

Well, if Sun's license really allows me to post the code in my web
page if I state that it should only be used for research purposes,
it's much closer to free software than I first thought.  But it's
still not free software, because it can *only* be used for research...

-- 
Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

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