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From: Alan Braggins <armb@ncipher.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/05/04
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Ed Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:
> >When you #include a file,
> >the compiler treats it as if the contents of that file were actually
> >inserted in that place, and the resulting compiled file contains the
> >compiled versions of those statements, which are clearly derivative works
> >of those bits of source code.
> 
> But most of the time, header files don't actually include code.

They do if they include template definitions.