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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!laphroaig!cflatter From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: Message-ID: <1992Aug19.011831.3079@nrao.edu> Sender: news@nrao.edu Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu Organization: NRAO References: <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:18:31 GMT Lines: 13 In article 32@rmkhome.UUCP, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >Software houses such as Lotus and Wordperfect want complete assurance that >their product is secure under the law when it goes out the door. There is >no court record to show what happens when the buyer of a commercial software >product demands source from the author because it was compiled using GCC, >and should fall under the GNU Copyleft. Compiling a program with GNU C does not automatically place it under the GNU General Public License. It might help cut down on the bandwidth here if people actually read the GPL before posting. Chris Flatters cflatter@nrao.edu