Re: Commercial apps written with GCC?

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From: Myles Williams
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 00:44

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>However the whole GLPL thing has me confused.  I plan to write the
>thing using statically linked libraries and their header files must be
>included in the source to make the link work.  Is this sort of thing
>precluded by the GLPL or not?  The wording is very tricky and I am not

If the binary does not link with GNU libraries, and none of the source you
wrote came from GNU programs, then it is clean and you may distribute it
however you like.

If you link with GNU libraries, then you are bound to satisfy one of the three
alternatives in the LGPL.

Would someone from the FSF please clarify on the use of GNU header files?  I
have never seen that issue discussed before.  It seems to me that since the
header files do not translate into machine code in the binary, their copy-
right has no claim on that binary.

Myles Williams					I'm not a lawyer.

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From: williams@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Myles Williams)
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Subject: Re: Commercial apps written with GCC?
Date: 15 Mar 1995 00:44:19 GMT
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