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Article #72173Re: Why I like the GPL (a personal perspective)
From: timlee
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 04:51
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 04:51
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mathew@mantis.co.uk (From A to B) writes:
|jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
|> As has been stated numerous times the GPL
|> covers derivitive works, you're even discussing it with Peter
|> over in news.admin right now. Even the most braindead lawyer would
|> probably pass on arguing that calling a program made it a derivitive
|> work.
|
|So if I separate my code into mycode.c and have calls to a gnu program in
|gnucode.c, I only have to provide source for gnucode.c?
|
|I don't think it's nearly as straightforward an issue as you think.
Do you link them together, or are the calls merely of the form
system("gnucode") within mycode.c, where mycode.c and gnucode.c
are compiled into separate executables?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,80f9c1347989320c X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-03 21:54:36 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!mips!mips!public!btr.com!timlee From: timlee@public.btr.com Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why I like the GPL (a personal perspective) Message-ID: <5811@public.BTR.COM> Date: 4 Mar 92 04:51:31 GMT References: <H.urb6owij1jA@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> <iTL1gB24w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: timlee@public.BTR.COM Reply-To: timlee@btr.com (Timothy J. Lee) Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Distribution: world,public Lines: 17