Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Lieutenant 030
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 16:07

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charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
> In article <ZsHyeB7w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030)
> writes:
> > The question is:  why should my function bar(), written only by me, have
> > to be distributed under the GPL just because it calls function foo()?
> > Why can't I just say "the functions in this .c file are under the GPL;
> > the functions in this .c file aren't"?
> 
> You can.

Ah!  This is news to me.  Good news too.

There's only one more question.  Is it *true*?


mathew

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