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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: "Open" Software Foundation: GNU
Message-ID: <3240006@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 88 22:57:32 GMT
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/ comp.misc / randy@ncifcrf.gov (The Computer Grue) / Jun 10, 1988 /

>    I'd like to correct a misconception that appears to have showed up
>on the net.  
...
>    I quote from rms' interview with BYTE (provided with the gnu-emacs
>distribution in etc/INTERVIEW):
...
>Stallman: The copyright law doesn't give me copyright on output from
>the compiler...

This, unfortunately, does not say anything about code linked from the
GNU C library (libg.a), which is what the original complaint was about.

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,ihnp4}!nucsrl!gore