[gnu.misc.discuss] GNU libraries and the GPL

tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (12/12/89)

   Date: 9 Dec 89 04:55:45 GMT
   From: barmar@think.com
   Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA

   In article <1885@crdos1.crd.ge.COM] davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
   ]if they
   ]use the FSF C library, and you compile and link using it, then your
   ]executable contains FSF code and is (supposedly) covered by the GNU
   ]diatribe. Er, copyleft.

   I didn't think there *was* a GNU C library.
   Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

   barmar@think.com
   {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar

With the exception of a few pieces distributed with GNU Emacs and
bash, the GNU C Library has not been released.  

The GNU C++ library is released.

Both are covered by the GNU General Public License and require code
that is linked with them to be freely redistributable under the terms
of the GPL.

enjoy -len