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From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Questions on NeXT machine (GNU license)
Message-ID: <25605@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 24 Oct 88 21:30:58 GMT
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In article <25427@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
|In article <12935@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|>True it couldn't copyright mine, BUT the license specifically
|>REQUIRES to ship the "sources" of the product compiled with GNU-C.
|
|Again, this issue gets rehashed regularly on the gnu.all newsgroups.
|Please read the GNU CC General Public License, 

|					        which only restricts
|you in how you handle FSF's code.  It makes no attempt to constrain
|you regarding your own work.

This sentence and a half is not very clear.

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.

2) if you compile a program with GCC that has no GNU source code in it,
you can legally do what you wish with it.

The GNU Project has a preference that its tools only be used to
produce programs whose source code is freely redistributable, but the
Project can't legally turn that preference into a legal requirement.

|If you'd like a copy of that License, please drop me (or FSF) a line.

	gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu is the FSF place to ask.

enjoy -len 

PS: discussion of this, now that the facts are straight, isn't
appropriate to this newsgroup, please take it elsewhere.