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Subject: FSF general licence
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Date: 5 Jun 89 11:43:39 GMT
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Some of the recent comments on this list have made me a little edgy.
Could someone please try to answer the following:

	I desire to use g++ for developing product within this company;
	this might include material from libg++. If I supply any of this
	product (in binary executable form), am I then obliged by the
	FSF licence to make *all* my source available to any customers
	(who will undoubtably be charged for the priviledge - this is a
	commerical operation)? Or am I merely required to offer such
	customers fair access to the source for g++/libg++? I could
	probably cope with the latter; the former would kill GNU tools
	stone dead.

Many thanks,
        Martin Reed, Racal Imaging Systems Ltd
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