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In article <RAULMILL.89Dec21114548@aludra.usc.edu> raulmill@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell) writes:
   [... cancel that, you didn't really want to read that stuff
   anyways, did you? ...]

A short time after I made that posting, somebody wrote me to say that
I am already too late, that there is already at least one group
working on creating freely redistributable ANSI/POSIX linked libraries
for C.  Oh well 8^)

Of course, these routines aren't all written yet, nor are they ready
for distribution, which makes them almost exact (drop-in 8^)
replacements for the GNU libraries.  That ought to make Everybody happy!

   [meanwhile, back at the ranch]

The whole issue of distribution of linked libraries seems a bit
short-term to me.  It only applies to linking prior to distribution (a
rather arcane concept).  There is also installation-time linking (I
seem to remember NEXT using this as a belated workaround of GPL) and
run-time linking (I don't suppose you've ever heard of the Amiga?  No?
How about Multics?  No?  Maybe SunOS (v4)?  No?  I'm sure there are
other examples 8^).

I can just see it:  $100000000 lawsuit charging for infringement of
copyright, seems somebody wrote some libraries for C which are
identical to somebody elses.  Happens that both are a set of calls to
a dynamic (run-time) library.

You can't prevent silliness in everybody, at times you can only work
around it.

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