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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35018 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1754 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!news.amherst.edu!twpierce From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <C5r22L.8p7@unix.amherst.edu> Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: Blasny Blasny, Consolidated (Amherst, MA Offices) References: <C5qCnn.5Kw@sugar.neosoft.com> <1qugu1$g30@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 21:23:08 GMT Lines: 17 In article <1qugu1$g30@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> damien@b63519.student.cwru.edu (Damien Neil) writes: >I can use gcc to make an application, link in a >GPL'd library, and sell the whole thing for thousands of dollars while keeping >the source code in a locked safe in Siberia. The only restriction the GPL >imposes is that programs that contains actual GPL'd source code must fall under >the GPL. (Note: linking in a library != using source code.) Where do you suppose the library code came from? Was it just born there? Followups are set to gnu.misc.discuss. -- ____ Tim Pierce / ?Usted es la de la tele, eh? !La madre \ / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu / del asesino! !Ay, que graciosa! \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / -- Pedro Almodovar