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In article <NELSON.92Jan3232312@cheetah.clarkson.edu>, nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
> In article <YLO.92Jan3181626@ngs.ngs.fi> ylo@ngs.ngs.fi (Tatu Ylonen) writes:

>    Just for information: I was forced to write my own regular expression
>    library because of the restrictions of the GNU licence, and because I
>    could not find any other library with the features I needed for a
>    commercial project.

> A minor nit: You needed to write your own because of the restrictions in
> *your* license.

He needed to write his own because the restrictions in his license
conflicted with the restrictions in the GNU license.  While you may
happen to like the G{L,}PL better than a lot of licenses, the fact
remains that it does impose restrictions on programs using it.  That's
why it's there - if it didn't impose restrictions, a notice placing
the program in the public domain would suffice.

david carlton
carlton@husc.harvard.edu

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