Re: digital images

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Karsten M. Self <kmself[_at_]ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

   Where did you hear this from? AFAIK, the compilers are specifically under the GPL. How else do you think they got NeXT to donate the Objective C compiler?

   The object code produced by a compiler is a derivative work of the compiler, AFAIK, but I believe the FSF walks a fine line (and knows it) between (a) wanting to preserve the spirit of the GPL, and (b) not strengthening copyright law. So I don't know whether they would ever try to assert such a thing, or even be interested in asserting such a claim.

Lynn

Lynn Winebarger
<owinebar[_at_]free-expression.org> Received on Fri Jan 28 2000 - 04:08:27 GMT