Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!tower From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: alt.next Subject: Re: Questions on NeXT machine Message-ID: <25601@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 24 Oct 88 19:37:22 GMT References: <17780@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <[9.5]karl@ddsw1.alt.next> <25599@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Followup-To: alt.next Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Lines: 27 X-Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 X-UUCP-Path: ..!harvard!bu-cs!tower In article ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: ... |Second, before you go around blasting the FSF, why don't you take the |thirty seconds it takes to read the Copyright notice. You will find out |that the objects produced by the compiler and the included libarary |routines are not subject to the further FSF copyright. | |-Ron This is only true where the "included library routines" are the "standard libraries that accompany the operating system on which the executable file runs." (to quote from the GNU CC GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE). If any of the GNU library routines are used, source for the entire executable must be available under the terms of the license. If you are unhappy with this, then use the standard libraries mentioned above. Please don't discuss this further in this newsgroup, it has little to do with NeXT. The license is a file called COPYING. I advise you to read it. You should also seek the advice of your lawyer, if you wish to not make your source freely redistributable under the terms of the GNU PUBLIC LICENSE. General information on the GNU Project is available from: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu enjoy -len