From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 03:30:10 GMT
In article <C5p4Ix.G9n@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Gee, I don't recall Sun claiming they owned *my* code because I linked it with
>their toolkits.
Neither does the FSF.
What the FSF does say, however, is that you must continue to follow the GPL
if you distribute a program that include GPL'd code. Part of this requirement
is that you must distribute source code to the entire product (with various
exceptions mentioned in the GPL and LGPL).
Various DOS-based compilers have their own restrictions -- and microsoft
used to claim that code output by their compiler *was* their code (or,
rather, a derivative product of your code and their code). Most vendors have
changed their rather ridiculous licenses by now, but not all, by any
means.