Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!mcdchg!rutgers!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: More confusion on GNU copying conditions Message-ID: <10602@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 22 Nov 88 04:48:27 GMT References: <8811131422.AA00325@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Distribution: gnu Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 41 In article <8811131422.AA00325@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) writes: > > The libraries (when linked into > >runtime code) are also not subject to the licensing. > >This part is untrue. > >Most of the GNU libraries (termcap, malloc, obstacks, libg++, etc.) >are covered by the GNU copying conditions, so any executable file >which contains them is also covered, and cannot be distributed except >on those conditions (which include making the *entire* source >available as free software). I just don't understand this. Yes, I understand your idea behind this, and you restate it later in the posting I'm quoting from. >The GNU concept is that software should be shared. This person seems >to be saying that he likes the GNU concept, except in so far as it >means he has to share software. Is this paradoxical, or what? >Perhaps he thought the GNU concept was something else. Now, it's all fine and dandy to have desires like this. But I don't think it's legal... How can some action you guys take remove my copyright rights? That is, by the existing copyright laws I have the rights to publish/not publish *my* code as I wish. You guys have the rights to publish/not publish *your* code as you wish. It cannot be legal for you guys to be able to restrict what I do with *my* code. I don't dispute your right to restrict me from doing what I want with *your* code, you have every right in the world to require that I re-distribute your code if I sell a package built with your compiler & library. Sorry. I love what you guys are doing, and even use some of your products, but I just don't believe that this one point is legal nor is it "proper". -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- <-- Controlled anarchy -- the essence of the net.