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From: bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Questions on NeXT machine (GNU license)
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Date: 25 Oct 88 23:15:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)

>1) if you compile a program, with or without GCC, that has any GNU
>source merged with it, including linking in any GNU library object
>code, the entire program is covered by the GNU PUBLIC LICENSE.  If you
>don't like this, find other non-GNU code to use.

Hmm, what if I compile a program I don't own the rights to distribute
source to, such as recompiling a utility off of the SysV tape? I am
certainly licensed (by AT&T) to redistribute the binary to
sublicensees but the sources require the recipient to have his/her/its
own AT&T source license?

Just being difficult...and in the wrong newsgroup...

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||