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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: libg++ and copylefts
Message-ID: <6590215@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 17:26:57 GMT
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> Well, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't understand why you can't package
> libg++ (binary and source) on a tape with your proprietary object
> files and have a customer do the link as part of installation, but
> here's something that just came from rms himself on the info-gcc
> mailing list. It's not quite the same, but it's about packaging code
> to be linked with FSF code by the user.

Well, I'm not a lawyer either, but my job entails writing software to be
burned into ROMs and made part of real time electronic test equipment.
[Digital oscilloscope-like stuff]  So the link idea wouldn't work for me
in any case.  Maybe someone else can write software to link together
their part and the Gnu library when a customer invokes a software program.
This all sounds pretty disgusting and ass-backwards to me though.  This 
still doesn't address the issue of .h files and in-line functions in C++.
Seems to me this keeps run-time linking from being a "solution."