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Re: Riddle me this then... (almost impossible to *avoid* breaking the GPL)

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 20:12
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In article <1020@lysator.liu.se> matoh@lysator.liu.se (Mats hrman) writes:

   Seems we have to wait for the *total, self-contained GNU system* until
   we can distribute GNU binaries. Anyone who wants to sue Next for the
   source code to their libc.a? After all, its header files probably are
   part of the source code of their gcc... That would be a nice court
   precedent to resolve that gray area of "how far can the GPL go" :-)

This was actually thought of, and would have prevented the use of GNU
software by people like Next.  As a result, the GPL contains the
following clause to allow what Next does:

  Source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
  modifications to it.  For an executable file, complete source code means
  all the source code for all modules it contains; but, as a special
  exception, it need not include source code for modules which are standard
  libraries that accompany the operating system on which the executable
  file runs, or for standard header files or definitions files that
  accompany that operating system.

	-mib
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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Re: Riddle me this then... (almost impossible to *avoid* breaking the GPL)
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