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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal
Subject: Re: Re: yacc: public domain?
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 19:20:20 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  2 19:20:20 1985
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> What's the difference between a library routine, which becomes
> part of my object module in response to my source code, and an
> inline routine which becomes part of my object module in the
> same way?  The source for both routines was written by the
> compiler vendor; why do I own the object for one but not the
> other?  (Note that I said object; if the vendor claims right
> to the source of the library, that's fine.)

You don't own either one.  The object code for the inline routine
is merely a translation of the source; translation does not affect
ownership in any major way, I believe.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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