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From: wbailey@oracle.com (Bill Bailey)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Linking with C libraries.
Message-ID: <1990Jan16.011247.8100@oracle.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 01:12:47 GMT
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In article <32745@news.Think.COM>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
> From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
> 
> If you distribute the program unlinked, and the recipient links it and
> redistributes this, *he* is responsible for providing source code to the
> libraries with which he linked 

So I sell someone my object libraries.  Without my knowing it, he links
them with the GNU C library and re-sells to someone else (say I get a
royalty).  Now, you claim, he is responsible for providing source to my
libraries which I never gave him in the first place.  So am I now
legally responsible for something he did?  This is absurd.  If you are
right, I can not believe it would hold legal ground.

-bill