🚀 go-pugleaf

friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
>In article <1iik7pINN4qf@shelley.u.washington.edu>
>tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
>>        1. Find the places where they want to make proprietary changes to  
>>        GNU Emacs.
>>
>>        2. Rewrite those parts so that they depend on a DLL (dynamic link
>>        library) to perform the functions that they want to do    
>>        proprietarily (sp?).
>>
>>        3. Distribute the modified GNU Emacs under GPL.
>>
>>        4. Implement a proprietary DLL, which is not distributed under
>>        GPL.
>>
>>Is this a violation of GPL?
> 
> Yes.  The GPL says, in part:
> 
>       2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
>     of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
>     distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
>     above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
> 
>         ...
> 
>         b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
>         whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
>         part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
>         parties under the terms of this License.

Does this mean that because NeXT supply a copy of gcc which requires the NeXT
C libraries, they must make the NeXT C libraries available to me free of
charge in source code form?  If so, hadn't you better tell them that?


mathew