From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 21:23:08 GMT
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?
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