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Legalities again

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From: William A. Turnbow
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 1990 12:58
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	Here is an interesting situation.  Suppose a company were to
own the rights to the source for program 'X'.  Now it licenses the
code to companies that can then resell the binaries, but cannot 
distribute the source.  I believe such is the case for company=AT&T
and program=c++ or program=ksh.

	Assuming that such a program used c++, if it were compiled for
a platform with g++ -- perhaps because g++ was the only readily
available c++ type compiler available for that platform, it seems
that the code code would not be able to be distributed and would
not be covered under the GNU license agreement.

	If that is the case, then wouldn't it be possible to sell the
rights to source code you wished to protect to an outside party, thus
eliminating your right to distribute the code?

-wat-
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From: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Legalities again
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Date: 18 Apr 90 12:58:04 GMT
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 13:58:04 1990