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- From: zoo@cygnus.com (david d 'zoo' zuhn)
- Subject: Re: quality of GNU stuff vs. Sun OS stuff
- In-Reply-To: N.Davis@lut.ac.uk's message of 17 Dec 92 16:26:38 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:11:02 GMT
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- I raised this question with the Cygnus guys at the Sun User show
- in San Jose, and they assured me that if I build a product using
- GNU stuff, then I have to ship the src. *BUT* I do not have to ship
- the src to my application. This has been checked out by various
- legal eagles including those of a certain large (though getting smaller :-)
- computer company.
-
- Given that I answered this question a few times at the SUG show, this may
- be my answer that got munged somewhere along the line . Let me clarify the
- above.
-
- If you build your product using GCC, or G++, or GAS, or whatever, this does
- not force you to ship sources to anything (not gcc, not your product).
-
- If you use the source code for gcc (or g++ or gas or emacs) in your
- product, then you *do* need to ship the sources for your product.
-
-
- If object code compiled from "copylefted" source code is linked into your
- application, then your application falls under the version of the GPL
- associated with the given source code (the normal GPL or the Library GPL).
- This happens if you are, for example, writing a new front end for GCC, or
- porting GAS to a new processor.
-
- Compiling a program with gcc does not alter the copyright status of that
- program. If your code is proprietary, or if it is PD, or anywhere in
- between, you can still use gcc as a compiler.
-
- I hope this makes things a little more clear.
-
- david d 'zoo' zuhn | There is great disorder under the heavens,
- cygnus support | and the situation is excellent.
- zoo@cygnus.com |
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