Re: digital images

On Sat, Jan 22, 2000, Peter D. Junger <junger[_at_]samsara.law.cwru.edu> wrote:
>
> It is my recollection back in the days of CP/M there were C-programs
> distributed with the claim that the copyright in the libraries extended
> to application programs that incorporated the library code. Isn't this
> really the same issue?
>
> What is the status of libraries today? I know that the GNU gcc compiler
> (GNU Compiler Collection) is not subject to the standard copy left
> license but rather to a watered down version just to avoid this issue.

Interesting. I was about to tell Peter he was wrong and that it was the *libraries*, not the compiler itself, which were licensed under the GNU LGPL (the GNU Lesser (formerly Library) Public License). But I checked, and in fact both gcc and g77 (the GNU Fortran-77 compiler) are licensed under the LGPL. My understanding was that while the libraries needed to allow incorporation into other works, the compiler itself didn't. Curious.

I'm not familiar with the licensing terms of proprietary compilers. Anyone?

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