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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2922 comp.os.linux.misc:20616 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know! Message-ID: <CtrE0v.A2A@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <michaelv.775258457@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <1994Jul28.185721.25480@rosevax.rosemount.com> <31bkd5$76h@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 15:07:42 GMT Lines: 21 In article <31bkd5$76h@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> jclf@kaiwan.com (Jason Fordham) writes: >In order to publish code fragments in Dr. Dobbs, the Jolitzen decided not >to GPL their code. The GPL prohibits code extracts: if you want to >publish a bit of GPL'd code, you have to publish the whole file. I just read the GPL, and I can't see anything that prohibits code extracts. Can you (or the Jolitzes it they're reading) explain which part of it contains this prohibition? Even if the GPL prohibited it, it wouldn't stop the copyright holder doing anything he wanted to with it. The GPL is a *licence*: it determines what a licence-holder can do with the code. The Jolitzes wouldn't need a licence for their own code! -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.