Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: rms says... Message-ID: <27B2EC1A.58A6@tct.uucp> Date: 8 Feb 91 18:21:14 GMT References: <27A6E9BA.2E94@tct.uucp> <4689@lib.tmc.edu> <1991Feb7.112838.695@robobar.co.uk> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 19 According to ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo): >And what happens if a future version of the gcc *command* (as opposed >to the gcc *compiler*) decides to link in a GPV covered library by default? ... but if that GPL-covered library is on your system, it's there because _you_ fetched it, _you_ compiled it, and _you_ installed it in /usr/local/lib. Unless... >(remember: gcc might have been upgraded by my computer service provider). In that case, your computer service provider could just as well have put AT&T trade secret source code or NSA decryption code into a public library. Does that mean that the trade secret status of AT&T code, or the classified status of NSA decryption code, is a danger to you? No. The danger is buying computer services from an irresponsible provider. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "Most of my code is written by myself. That is why so little gets done." -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin