Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: What is a requirement Message-ID: Date: 20 Dec 89 15:23:34 GMT References: <8912201209.AA03583@wheat-chex> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 23 In-reply-to: tower@AI.MIT.EDU's message of 20 Dec 89 12:09:13 GMT In article <8912201209.AA03583@wheat-chex> tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes: 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 That is correct, but it may be misleading. If you don't use any of the advanced features of GNU's getopt such that it can be linked to any getopt, then it's not covered by the GPL. Same goes for the C libraries. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989. I think killing is value-neutral in and of itself. -- Gary Strand, 8 Nov 1989. Liberals run this country, by and large. -- Clayton Cramer, 20 Nov 1989. Shut up and mind your Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner. -- TK, 23 N.