From: James Hickman <hickman1 AT peak DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: copyleft?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:43:36 -0800
Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowlege,Inc
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Neither wrote:
> 
>         Is it true that if I use the c++ (except for iostream)
> libraries, all of my programs linked with it will now become free
> software automatically. I read this here:
> http://www.rt66.com/~brennan/djgpp/things.html . An answer would be
> much appreciated.
> 
>         Feel free to try to explain the concept, I read through the
> libgplus gnu copyleft info file, and didn't quite understand it. I
> know it says there's an exception to this, but I'm don't really
> understand those long drawn out legal documents.
> 
>         --Thank you very much for anyone who has replied to my
> previous questions, and to anyone who will reply to this one.

Read the details at http://www.gnu.org
There are two forms of the GNU Public Licence, one for programs (this
seems to be what you'r refering to)
and one for librarys. The library licence allows you to incorperate a
library into a piece of programming
without that program becoming Free Software (or Copyleft).
-- 
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James Hickman - ojh AT hotmail DOT com

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