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From: doug@eris.berkeley.edu (Doug Merritt)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a PD 56000 assembler
Keywords: GNU, gas, 56k, PD
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Date: 5 Feb 91 15:42:59 GMT
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In article <10761@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
>
>Since it's also Richard Stallman's opinion that FSF has no more rights
>to code compiled with gcc (or assembled with gas) than to text edited
>by Emacs, you're clearly on safe ground.  However, if you link with
>Gnu libraries it's another story.

I take it that Stallman believes that if you link with Gnu libraries,
then the entire s/w is then under the Gnu copyright? Radical.

We did our own C++ library just to avoid that possibility, but I still
have personal difficulty with that point. From a *technical* point of
view, using a library shouldn't allow what amounts to confiscation of
the software using the library. Interpretation of the *law* is quite another
matter, of course, but perhaps the law needs to be amended. Our fine
judicial and legislative system unfortunately tends to be quite clueless
on technical issues.
	Doug
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