Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AI.MIT.EDU!tower From: tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Because you think I misrepresent RMS, it's OK to misrepresent me? Message-ID: <8912201209.AA03583@wheat-chex> Date: 20 Dec 89 12:09:13 GMT References: Sender: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: gnu-misc-discuss@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Project GNU, Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA +1 (617) 876-3296 Lines: 25 Errors-To: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: gnu-misc-discuss@cis.ohio-state.edu Sender: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu Date: 14 Dec 89 19:10:50 GMT From: rodney@rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY >>>>> On 14 Dec 89 14:19:23 GMT, jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) said: Jay> Despite that, it is still covered by it. That means that Jay> anyone who use that package is, because of section 2b of the Jay> GPV, automatically forced to give _his source code_, not just Jay> the GNU getopt package, away, and prevented from restricting Jay> redistribution of that code. All without his knowledge. no, if you use the getopt package, you don't have to post your sources. if you change getopt and redistribute it, then you do. -- Rodney Wrong. If your program requires GNU source to be linked in, it's all covered by the GPL. thanx -len