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Re: Is the following "legal"/safe?

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From: Kurt Baudendistel
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 12:37
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In article <dej.00uh@qpoint.amiga.ocunix.on.ca> dej@qpoint.amiga.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones) writes:
>I am releasing a shared library under the GPL (not GLPL) ...
>... I don't want the fact that the
>library itself is copyleft to deter people from using it in non-copylefted
>software, nor do I want to force them to take the measures required
>by the GLPL.
>
>What's the best way for me to state this "safely"?

Use the GLPL. It is tailor-made for licensing libraries in just the manner
you require. 

I don't understand what the ``measures required by the GLPL'' are.
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Kurt Baudendistel ---                                           --- GRA
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From: baud@kepler.eedsp.gatech.edu (Kurt Baudendistel)
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