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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: GNU infection in NIH
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.074821.1429@convex.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 07:48:21 GMT
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From the keyboard of kgorlen@alw.nih.gov (Keith Gorlen):
:	An exception to this are the files lib/regex.h and lib/regex/regex.c.,
:	which are Copyright (C) 1985 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  See these
:	files for the terms and conditions governing this software.

It just seems to me that it could be more clearly spelled out that if you
use the regexp class, your entire code becomes tainted with the GPL.  I
don't think users of the NIH stuff are expecting that.

--tom