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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/06/27
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In article <sz0iuz184ar.fsf@sugar-bombs.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG <thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> However, company decisions are constraints on what we engineers
>> can do.  I can't change the brand of computer we use; I can't
>> write Lisp or Forth code for our systems; I can't incorporate
>> GPL'd code. At least, I can't do so and still be doing the job
>> they're paying me to do.
>
>What you mean is "I choose not to incorporate GPL'd code into my work
>so that I can make more money".  This might be a rational choice; but
>it is a choice, not anything forced upon you.

The only choice is to do the work or not.  If the work requires using
other code that is under incompatible copyright restrictions, then
incorporating GPL'd code is not one of the possible choices.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com