Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:11:56 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199604260311.XAA01038@delorie.com>
To: Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk
CC: djgpp
In-reply-to: <1530.9604260117@bylands.dur.ac.uk> (Sengan.Short@durham.ac.uk)
Subject: Re: GNU question.


> Will they redistribute the sources, or simply a linkable lib?

That is up to them to decide.

> To rephrase the question more precisely, if one includes the djgpp
> distribution in a package with one's own software, must one
> distribute the source code to it?  OR can one include djgpp with a
> commercial library (in lib form, not source)?

The GPL itself denies any link by mere aggregation.  The presence of
djgpp on the same media as any other software in no way affects the
copyright status of that other software.

The distribution of the djgpp package itself is irrelevent.  Anyone
can redistribute djgpp, as long as it is redistributed as a whole.

When you create a program with djgpp, only the parts that go into the
program itself (your sources, djgpp libraries, etc) count.  DJGPP's
main libraries (libc, libm, etc) are carefully kept clean of GPL code,
so that they may be used in commercial software.