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Article #72559Re: Too Good to be True?
From: david carlton
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1992 21:03
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1992 21:03
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In article <Dma3eB20w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) writes:
> 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*?
You're probably more likely to get an authoritative answer to that by
sending mail to gnu@gnu.ai.mit.edu (or is it just @ai.mit.edu?
Presumably the former should work, at any rate) than by posting to
this newsgroup.
david carlton
carlton@husc.harvard.edu
Let me do my TRIBUTE to FISHNET STOCKINGS...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,e71af1b1f401c58d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-25 13:20:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!psuvax1!hsdndev!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc-news!carlton From: carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Too Good to be True? Message-ID: <CARLTON.92Jan25160317@scws8.harvard.edu> Date: 25 Jan 92 21:03:17 GMT References: <1992Jan23.224808.28281@news2.cis.umn.edu> <Dma3eB20w164w@mantis.co.uk> Organization: Citizens for Boysenberry Jam Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: scws8.harvard.edu In-reply-to: mathew@mantis.co.uk's message of 24 Jan 92 16:07:00 GMT