From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Ed Avis Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/30 Message-ID: <372A07FE.47AD7982@doc.ic.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472861157 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <3728C535.4AFA09C2@doc.ic.ac.uk> <3728C588.D779258F@aasaa.ofe.org> <3729D0F6.3DF2CCED@doc.ic.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@doc.ic.ac.uk X-Trace: lux.doc.ic.ac.uk 925501438 19280 146.169.49.31 (30 Apr 1999 19:43:58 GMT) Organization: Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Apr 1999 19:43:58 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-30T19:43:58+00:00 List-Id: Barry Margolin wrote: >Template definitions are in header files, not libraries. They often work >at the source level, and are more like an elaborate macro facility (they >were actually added to the language to replace some common macro idioms). I didn't know that any work compiled using header files counts as a derivative work of those header files. People write programs using (say) Microsoft's header files for MFC, and yet they don't have to say 'portions Copyright Microsoft' for the finished work. -- Ed Avis