Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Must modules be GPL'ed? | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:42:01 -0400 | From | Buddha Buck <> |
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> Alan Cox Wrote ... > > > > Every program ever compiled with gcc has inlined functions from GPL'ed > > > stuff. > > Most definitely not. > > Aren't the gcc includes GPL'ed? What about #defines? > Or are they all covered by the Library licence (GPLL?) which is different?
Perhaps a better way of stating the situation is that almost every program compiled with gcc have inlined functions from GPL'ed stuff, but gcc comes attached with a modified GPL excempting programs which use solely those functions and no other GPLed code from the full rigor of the GPL.
Unfortunately, I can't find a copy of that exemption right now... > > -- > [=======================================================================] > [ Kevin Lentin |finger kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au| ] > [ K.Lentin@cs.monash.edu.au |for PGP public key block. Fingerprint | ] > [ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!' |6024308DE1F84314 811B511DBA6FD596 | ] > [=======================================================================]
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