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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: GNU/GPL (NO DEBATE PLEASE) (was Re: unexec() with perl)
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.044645.10536@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 04:46:45 GMT
References: <312@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> <109153@convex.convex.com> <1990Nov28.122908.25542@ping.uucp> <109384@convex.convex.com>
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In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)

In article <109384@convex.convex.com>, tchrist@convex (Tom Christiansen) writes:
| In article <1990Nov28.122908.25542@ping.uucp> gorpong@ping.uucp 
| (Gordon C. Galligher) writes some very good points about what
| using unexec from GNU means to perl.
| 
| Bear in mind that Larry does not himself distribute perl with 
| any GNU code in it.  It's up to you to do the linking.

Also bear in mind that *all* of Perl *is* covered under the GPL (and
is therefore "GNU code") since it is distributed under the GPL (check
"Copying" in the distribution if you don't believe me, or just type
"perl -v").

And let's not debate the merits of the GPL in this group... it
pollutes too many other groups already.

(IMHO, an unexec-ed binary would need to be distributed with all of
the Perl source as well as the Perl script, given my interpretation of
the GPL.)

Just another Perl hacker,
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