pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (07/30/89)
rms@wheaties.ai.mit.edu writes: >The FSF lawyer told me that distributing code which was designed to >work only when linked with part of a GNU program would be considered, >legally, as a subterfuge for distributing a modified program >containing both that and the GNU program. So it would be covered by >the general public license. This sounds like a `proprietary interface' argument. ``You must follow the copyleft on all code that uses something other than the standard (documented external) interface.'' Is this true? Followups to gnu.misc.discuss. ;-D on ( And if the program does the link... ) Pardo -- pardo@cs.washington.edu {rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!pardo