Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 03:52

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In article <MIB.92Jan27202633@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:

   If the code is GPL, but not LGPL, then you cannot do quite as you
   want.  If they are distributed together (even if in multiple files)
   then what you distribute (which is the total program) must be
   distributed under the GPL, or in some other fashion approved by the
   FSF.  
   
Copyrights aren't this powerful.  The GPL may attempt to specify this, but
that can't have any effect.  The "mere aggregation" clause of the GPL does
not effect anything legally, but rather states clearly the limit of the
power of the GPL.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>

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