From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: BBS Project -- Linux? Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 21:58:54 GMT
In article <1993Mar16.053715.22721@engr.uark.edu> hbj@engr.uark.edu (Bernard Johnson) writes:
>KID01 <mat@dsbc.icl.co.uk> writes:
>
>>In article <9303132002.AA14564@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STMQ%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Michael Quigley) writes:
>>>Dear Linuxers,
>>>
>>>I have been receiving a lot of nasty mail from people complaining about
>>>my BBS software being released commercially. The development group and I
>>>are now having reservations about releasing it for Linux. While I have
>>>been getting a lot of positive feedback, the good and bad feedback are
>>>not in a ratio that I would like to see.
>
>What compiler are you using? If GNU, don't you have to release it free with
>source code (assuming you link with GNU libs)? I have nothing against
>commercial efforts. I'm just curious.
No.
The GNU 'C' library is covered under the GLPL instead of the GPL.
It simply states that you must provide your code in a form that can be
-linked- with a changed version of the library code, ie .a or .o
files.
libgcc.a is covered under a much more liberal license that has no
such restrictions.
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