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: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 474001200 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <372F2C65.4B7663C5@doc.ic.ac.uk> <372F36AB.55833EA6@doc.ic.ac.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@visi.com X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 925841699 205.166.146.8 (Tue, 04 May 1999 13:14:59 CDT) Organization: Plethora . Net - More net, less spam! NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:14:59 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <372F36AB.55833EA6@doc.ic.ac.uk>, Ed Avis wrote: >My point was, the only part of the header file which gets included in >the final executable (or, indeed, in the .S file) is the two numbers >1000 and 6. Hmm. Interesting point... Not sure it's always true; some compilers embed lots of information for debuggers. >I thought that very small snippets of code were not copyrighted. If this were true, you could probably "fair-use" a large piece of code to death. -s -- Copyright 1999, All rights reserved. Peter Seebach / seebs@plethora.net C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon! Will work for interesting hardware. http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/ Visit my new ISP --- More Net, Less Spam!