From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 15:53:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10893 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gadget.nla.gov.au (gadget.nla.gov.au [203.4.201.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10884 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:53:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cmakin@localhost) by gadget.nla.gov.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA10523 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:52:05 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: gadget.nla.gov.au: cmakin owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:52:04 +1100 (EST) From: Carl Makin To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: GPL Licence Query Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A friend and I have been reading the GNU GPL licence and the library licence and, of course, we don't understand them. (We were doing this seperate the GPL discussion going on) Would someone be willing to clear up a question? Our reading of the licence indicates that all object code produced by GNU C, even if you don't use any GNU libraries, would be infected with the GPL. Obviously the FreeBSD team has a different interpretation. Can someone explain what that interpretation is? Carl. -- Carl Makin (VK1KCM) C.Makin@nla.gov.au 'Work +61 6 262 1576' "Speaking for myself only!" 'If you want to make your spouse pay attention to what you say... Talk in your sleep!'