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From: kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Gnu Copyleft Re: Who's got the ANSI (was Re: Misdeclaring "main")
Summary: This is a legal question, not a technical one
Message-ID: <798@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 22:56:21 GMT
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Reply-To: kemnitz@mitisft.UUCP (Greg Kemnitz)
Followup-To: misc.legal
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In article <20006@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:
|In article <796@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, kemnitz@mitisft (Gregory Kemnitz) writes:
|>Due to copyleft (see thread on comp.lang.c++) gcc cannot be used on 
|>production code.
|
|Sorry to pollute yet another news group with endless digressions on
|interpreting the GNU copyleft...  However, Gregory Kemnitz's statement
|above is NOT TRUE.  GCC certainly can and is being used to compile

All I know is that some lawyers I have talked to about this claim that
this GNU copyleft causes problems in distributing binaries. Other lawyers
probably disagree.  I am sure that this will be decided in court someday,
and all the USENET bandwidth being wasted on this issue will be for naught.
Follow-up to misc.legal.

|commercial production code.  
|

Who were their lawyers??  What happens the first time they try to prosecute
someone for piracy??  Anyone for comp.legal?? :-)

|The problematic issues under discussion in comp.lang.c++ involves
|certain GNU *libraries*, e.g., libg++.  I refer you to the past 2 or 3
|weeks of posting on that news group for more details.
|
|Doug
|
|
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Greg Kemnitz                      | Software without hardware is an idea.
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