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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?) Date: 6 May 1993 00:43:34 -0400 Organization: dis Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1sa51m$2df8@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <C5sCvr.3G1@unx.sas.com> <CGD.93Apr20124457@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <PC123.93May5000713@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> <1993May6.014052.17558@fcom.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu Keywords: Flame-bait In article <1993May6.014052.17558@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > > No, but they can require you to distribute object modules which can > be interpreted as a disclosure of the overall organization of your > program, [...] This is misleading. One can simply link all of the object modules of the final program together and remove internal symbols; this yields something which discloses no more information than if you had linked it with shared libraries (something Sun vendors sometimes do, for example). The requirement of keeping the same version of the source around for a minimum of three years, to supply on demand, is a really annoying adminstrative hassle, though. Linux SLS violates this clause of the GPL. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!