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In article <1142@mtxinu.UUCP>, frk@mtxinu.COM (Frank Korzeniewski) writes:
> In article <HL42IIggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >
> >Claiming rights to your code because you use a GNU library routine is just
> >a bit beyond the pale for me. You may disagree, but surely you can see the
> >point.
> 
> Your statement is equivalent to the following: "What, you want money for
> this software you wrote (or product you created)?  How dare you?"
> 

Let us pose these statements in a slightly different though I would argue
equivalent fashion.

My bricks are free.          If you use my bricks
I require anyone who         you must compensate
uses any of my bricks   <->  me.
in a building to give
away the building for
free.

Oh yeah.  These sound real equivalent to me.  Sure....  If you believe that
I also have some ocean front property in Kansas for you.

Note that if I want to do commercial work these bricks are USELESS.
Works that require compensation I can use they just require that I pay them
their just due.  These two concepts are in no way, shape, or form equivalent.

And I do love how adolescent people can get when accusing others of adolescent
behavior.

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I'm intrigued, however, by a previous poster's assertion that the GNU copyleft
doesn't actually extend to cover code that you wrote but rather only covers the
GNU code which you used.  If that is actually the case then you could still
use the library but, if someone asked for it you would have to give them the
sources for the GNU library not including any of the code that you created.  I
would think the same would hold for Bison, i.e. you would have to supply the
naked parser skeleton source if requested but, not the filled in one.
The filling after all, is really just a translation of your code in the same
fashion that an executable oject image is the translation of C code you created.
I'm going to have to go re-read the copyleft to see if I believe that is
really what it says.  That wasn't the impression I came away with last time
I waded through it.


David Albrecht