Re: Re^2: Free Software Users == dupes ?

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From: Jacob Gore
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 1990 00:31

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/ gnu.misc.discuss / coolidge@casca.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) / Mar 30 1990 /
> if someone was to sell object code to their program,
> and say "link this with libg++, or any other compatible library, or
> write a compatible library with this interface, and you'll have a
> working program", that wouldn't violate the copyleft, right?

Unless the seller can point to at least one such "other compatible library".

> How can the GPL apply to any code that doesn't include GPL-covered
> code, even if it requires GPL-covered code to function?

I don't know.  I was simply stating FSF's position as I understand it: if
something needs GPL-covered code to function, it is a derivative of that
GPL-covered code.

Jacob
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