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Article #63264Re: GNU development tools planned 4 NT?
From: Chris Bitmead
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 10:16
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 10:16
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In article <3htgbq$ah@mtnmath.mtnmath.com> paul@mtnmath.mtnmath.com (Paul Budnik) writes: >Paul Budnik (paul@mtnmath.mtnmath.com) wrote: > >: My impression is that Congruent is trying to abide by the letter if not >: necessarily the spirit of the GPL. If they do not provide the source >: for the DLL then this violates the intention of the GPL. > >Apparently I was mistaken. The claim is that the DLL only provides support >for Unix system calls that were already in the GNU code. *If* this is true >then the DLL is a sort of operating system extension rather than >modifications to the GNU source and it is not necessary to release the >source code for it. I agree with you in principle, that perhaps such a DLL should not need to be subject to the GPL. But is there any technical reason why it shouldn't? Is there anything in the GPL which would exclude it? -- Chris Bitmead chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,eb4b2d1d0e5776fb X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-24 10:16:54 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!nordwest.pop.de!news.hamburg.pop.de!easix!uunet!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.pop.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au!netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au!orca1.vic.design.telecom.com.au!news.tansu.com.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!newshost!chrisb From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU development tools planned 4 NT? Date: 24 Feb 95 10:16:54 Organization: Telecom Australia Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <CHRISB.95Feb24101654@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <3gbh1r$i0e@mhaal.inhouse.compuserve.com> <CHRISB.95Feb2113322@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> <3haurd$56@mtnmath.mtnmath.com> <3htgbq$ah@mtnmath.mtnmath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au In-reply-to: paul@mtnmath.mtnmath.com's message of 15 Feb 1995 10:15:22 -0800