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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!halon.vggas.com!news From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: GPL Date: 21 Feb 1997 11:38:15 GMT Organization: VG Gas Analysis Systems Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5ek1f7$bgq@halon.vggas.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <m23evgchq9.fsf@maxwell.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us> <5d2jpo$bb1@omega.gmd.de> <LJn9y0gTzz1L091yn@ibm.net> <5egc46$eug@nyx10.cs.du.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriel.vggas.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (x86 32bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:160087 comp.os.linux.networking:69369 comp.os.linux.advocacy:85087 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2570 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:53941 comp.os.os2.advocacy:268932 In article <5egc46$eug@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, colin@nyx10.cs.du.edu says... >The GPL doesn't say much of anything about what you may do with a copy >that you already have. True. People not _copying_ a GPL work can do anything they like with it. I seem to remember that at one point IBM had a modified internal version of GCC -- since they weren't distributing/selling it, they didn't have to provide source (since they weren't providing binary either). They were perfectly within their rights to do this. This is not a flame at IBM or anything; I suspect in any acse that whatever their mods were for, that functionality may well be in recent GCCs anyway. -- James Youngman VG Gas Analysis Systems The trouble with the rat-race Before sending advertising material, read is, even if you win, you're http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html still a rat.