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Article #72915Re: GP Library Licence Question
From: David J. Camp
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1991 22:03
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1991 22:03
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In Reply to this Note From: <Steve Simmons>
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> [you must] accompany the work [that uses the library] with the complete
> corresponding machine-readable source code for the Library including
> whatever changes were used in the work . . . and, if the work is an
> executable linked with the Library, with the complete machine-readable
> "work that uses the Library", as object code and/or source code, so
^^
> that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a
> modified executable containing the modified Library."
>
>Note it explicitly says one must either distribute (a) source or (b)
>source and object. This is source and object for the work, not just
>for the library.
You must ship the source for the library. You must ship the source OR
object for the work that uses the library. The term and/or is
interpreted by logicians as an inclusive or, which makes the "and"
redundant except to distinguish it from an exclusive or.
(It has been a while since I took logic, so please forgive any errors.)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,566b8b971322213d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-12-31 14:20:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!wubios.wustl.edu!david From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GP Library Licence Question Message-ID: <9112312203.AA20158@wubios> Date: 31 Dec 91 22:03:06 GMT References: <1991Dec31.200952.19634@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 26