Re: Copyleft & royalties for authors

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From: Kenneth Jamieson
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 18:50

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In article <1991Nov6.222801.13486@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>want to take away others' right to write public domain or GPL'd
>software; many of them even benefit a lot from public domain and GPL'd
>software (I'm told that for example Lotus uses gcc).

	This is a issue I am confused on (have asked before, gotten
no clear answer.)

	I someonw compiles a program with gcc, has he created an "aggregate 
work" ?? The resulting binary will contain GPL code (includes, libraries)
etc....

	So how can Lotus use gcc to compile a commercial program ?
					


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