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From: cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: GNU runtime libraries.
Message-ID: <13188@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 16:33:35 GMT
References: <878@umb.umb.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <878@umb.umb.edu>, by karl@umb.umb.edu (Karl Berry.):
> ...When the standard C runtime library is released, it will most likely be
> copylefted, and programs linked with that will be considered GNU-derived,
> and so will be subject to the copyleft...If you think copylefting software
> is wrong, that's your prerogative, but there is no need to state your
> opinion again; it has been expressed many times in the last few weeks.

Oh, I don't know, the volume of confused, angry postings from people
is probably one more useful measure of GNU's policies.
Redundancy is useful.  And copylefting all works linked with the GNU
runtime library is like copylefting all files edited with GNUemacs.
It makes the tool unusable by the general public, and usable only by FSF.
P.S. I love the GNU project too...
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