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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a6975ef46c052458 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 23:51:43 -0500 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Runtime versions (GPL vs Modified GPL) References: <482e3a88$0$6552$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 23:51:43 -0500 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.202.183.17 X-Trace: sv3-A7Q89VFXhPlPnuVKNQQLCDjS1JojShuvBOA+zHIxUWToTaZsU0A6miIsj8hU0IUg72/YjgwJYMr4Z5x!7F1X7DQoj1HGZV6vvGFt/d36qRjpTiGyR2PHBXv7jbc2dH7chnWb+kxmKLRe7Uzl0pZH0x/lSp5X!4fQp1ZorucmHsusPaA4rcvLl8Kuvnw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:138 Date: 2008-05-16T23:51:43-05:00 List-Id: >The FSF also explains why they have linking exceptions >etc. go with some of their software, If my program uses calls on proprietary Microsoft SDKs, or calls subroutines in a library supplied with the compiler, that's OK. But I understand that if my program uses anything from some other proprietary library (a binding to something, or device drivers, say), then I cannot sell, give, or in any way distribute a binary copy of my program, since it clearly could not contain complete source. Correct?