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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Getting around the GPL (was Re: Fund raising at the FSF)
- Message-ID: <930111.173628.1c8.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:36:28 GMT
- References: <9LPywB26w165w@mantis.co.uk> <1993Jan7.112550.22626@uwasa.fi> <FRIEDMAN.93Jan8022706@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
- >In article <1iik7pINN4qf@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- >tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
- >> 1. Find the places where they want to make proprietary changes to
- >> GNU Emacs.
- >>
- >> 2. Rewrite those parts so that they depend on a DLL (dynamic link
- >> library) to perform the functions that they want to do
- >> proprietarily (sp?).
- >>
- >> 3. Distribute the modified GNU Emacs under GPL.
- >>
- >> 4. Implement a proprietary DLL, which is not distributed under
- >> GPL.
- >>
- >>Is this a violation of GPL?
- >
- > Yes. The GPL says, in part:
- >
- > 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
- > of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
- > distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
- > above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
- >
- > ...
- >
- > b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
- > whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
- > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
- > parties under the terms of this License.
-
- Does this mean that because NeXT supply a copy of gcc which requires the NeXT
- C libraries, they must make the NeXT C libraries available to me free of
- charge in source code form? If so, hadn't you better tell them that?
-
-
- mathew
-