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- From: mib@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Getting around the GPL (was Re: Fund raising at the FSF)
- Message-ID: <MIB.93Jan11164308@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 00:43:08 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mathew@mantis.co.uk's message of 11 Jan 93 17:36:28 GMT
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- In article <930111.173628.1c8.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
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- 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?
-
- The GPL contains an explicit clause covering this:
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- However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
- include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
- binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on)
- of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
- component itself accompanies the executable.
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