Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: if the user does the link Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 89 03:05:20 GMT References: <8907291923.AA00808@yahi.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 10 In-reply-to: rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU's message of 29 Jul 89 19:23:49 GMT This does not protect the Gnu C library then; only the Gnu G++ library. If the Gnu C library is POSIX/ANSI/WHATEVER compatible, the distributor could claim that *any* library could be linked. For libg++, the interface is more detailed; it would be demonstrable that the user was intended to link the Gnu library, as opposed to, e.g., the AT&T library, into a product. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)