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From: saj@chinet.UUCP (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST news software / Sobozon C
Summary: GNU distribution conditions
Message-ID: <6611@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 14:22:44 GMT
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Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In the referenced article, Dale Schumacher referred to the GNU redistribution
conditions.  He was close, but a bit off.  In the gnu.gcc newsgroup RMS stated
that he considers the GNU 'copyleft' (essentially meaning free availability
of all source code) to apply to anything that is a 'derivative work' of
a Free Software Foundation product.  That's a technical legal term there, and
right now the best guess is that it means BISON output or anything linked
with the GNU libraries, but not anything simply compiled with gcc and
the associated tools.