From: galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt) Subject: Re: GNU license and gcc development Date: 22 Feb 1993 11:56:44 MST
In article <1993Feb19.175625.21392@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes:
>In article 990@netcom.com, messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>>As hard as I tried to read and understand the GNU license, one
>>specific case remains uncertain to me:
>>
>>If I use gcc with GNU licensed libraries under Linux to produce
>>a program, can it be copyrighted and sold, or does it have to
>>be GNU Copylefted based on the fact that by using GNU libraries
>>I have included GNU material in my program?
>
>This depends on whether the libraries fall under the GNU Public License
>or the GNU Library Public License. If the latter then you can do what you
>like as long as you provide a version of the program in a form that can
>be linked with a newer version of the GLPLed library.
>
>It is up to the author of the library whether he uses the GLPL or GPL so
>check which one is used for the libraries you want to use.
The answer to this question sounds too simple, so I may be wrong, but
since Linux uses shared libraries, you don't actually distribute the
libraries with the executable, so you should be free to use any libraries
you want without any problems...