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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: if the user does the link
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Date: 29 Jul 89 22:49:47 GMT
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rms@wheaties.ai.mit.edu writes:
>The FSF lawyer told me that distributing code which was designed to
>work only when linked with part of a GNU program would be considered,
>legally, as a subterfuge for distributing a modified program
>containing both that and the GNU program.  So it would be covered by
>the general public license.

This sounds like a `proprietary interface' argument.  ``You must
follow the copyleft on all code that uses something other than the
standard (documented external) interface.''  Is this true?

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	;-D on  ( And if the program does the link... )  Pardo
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