Copyright Notice in Commercial Software

[Steve Lamb]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:04:22 -0600, Andrew Dalke <dalke at acm.org> wrote:
>The GPL, which you are probably thinking of, does not allow similarly
>unfettered use of their code.  Packages compiled with GPL code
>restrict their use to only GPL-compatible licenses.

    That's a new one to me.  I've never heard of the GPL requiring things that
I compile with a GPLed compiler to be distributed also under that license.
I've only seen it where the distributed /code/, if modified and recompiled
must also be distributed under the GPL.  

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