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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Linking with C libraries.
Message-ID: <1990Jan12.004220.773@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 12 Jan 90 00:42:20 GMT
References: <1990Jan8.054859.557@oracle.com> <1990Jan8.185253.8145@oracle.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1990Jan8.185253.8145@oracle.com> by wbailey@oracle.com (Bill Bailey):
+---------------
| > For an executable file, complete source code means all the source code
| > for all modules it contains; but, as a special exception, it need not
| > include source code for modules which are standard libraries that
| > accompany the operating system on which the executable file runs
| 
| This seems to further bolster some previous arguments.  If I just
| distribute my object libraries with a Makefile and say "link on site with
| any ansi C library" then I can't get unintentionally nailed by copyleft.
+---------------

Which still leaves *me* up a creek without a paddle:  I still can't use Bison
to build e.g. my (proposed) replacement for Unify 2000's Embedded SQL/A,
because I'd have to link to a non-publicly distributable library which is not
an OS library (specifically, the Unify RHLI library).  And (again repeating my
earlier message on this subject) because there is no GNU relational DBMS with
4GL, I can't use that to get out of it.  So I'm still stuck with the need to
pretty much ignore the FSF's existence and work.

++Brandon
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