🚀 go-pugleaf

   Date: 11 Mar 92 01:15:03 GMT
   Organization: Imagine Multimedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
   From: henry_flurry@imagine.com (Henry Flurry)
   Sender: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu
   Reply-To: Henry Flurry <henry_flurry@imagine.com>

   Bill Shirley writes
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   % When I was hoping and wishing for on Objective-C runtime from GNU
   % I got to thinking.
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   % What kind of GNU protection will there be over the Objective-C 
   % runtime environment/library?
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   % Will it be like gcc - if you modify and distribute you must make the
   % modification's source available, but if you compile a program with
   % it you can distribute that program for any cost w/o the source?
   % 
   % Or
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   % Will it be like bison - if you use the runtime for your program you
   % must make the program's source freely available?
   % 
   % Or
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   % Some where in between?
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It will either be like Bison (GNU General Public License) or somewhere
in between (GNU Library General Public License (LGPL)).

   As late as Jan 21, FSF had not yet decided.

   Best to get the info straight from them, though, rather than to  
   speculate on what they will do!

   - Henry Flurry

FSF has still not decided.  It depends on how much support we get from
proprietary software developers with glib and lib-g++, now that those
libraries are under the GNU LGPL.  If they get used and we get
enhancements and bug reports from the proprietary vendors, we are very
likely to put more libraries (and the Bison parser skeleton) under the
LGPL.

thanx -len