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From: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: More confusion on GNU copying conditions
Message-ID: <1001@asylum.sf.ca.us>
Date: 27 Nov 88 07:14:26 GMT
References: <8811131422.AA00325@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <10602@s.ms.uky.edu> <17353@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <17353@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mellon@eris.berkeley.edu (Ted Lemon) writes:
>The GNU license prohibits you from distributing GNU code linked together
>with your code without making available your source code as well as the
>GNU source code.

It may be easier for some people to understand if it's stated in a
slightly different way.

Rather than:

"The FSF requires you to distribute source to your code if GNU code is
linked into it."

read:

"The FSF will only allow people who distribute the source to their own
code to distribute their own code with GNU code linked in."

But in the second one, the FSF code is being acted upon rather than
the distributor's code, which should be a more palatable version of
the idea. The end result is the same.
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