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Re: RFC: License corrections for unwind-*
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:42:58PM -0400, Jonathan Lennox wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:06:57PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > I spoke to Richard Henderson about this, and he said that all of these files
> > > were intended to bear the libgcc exception.
> >
> > Comments, anyone?
>
> > > + In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the
> > > + Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited permission to link the
> > > + compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs,
> > > + and to distribute those combinations without any restriction coming
> > > + from the use of this file. (The General Public License restrictions
> > > + do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of
> > > + the file, and distribution when not linked into a combine
> > > + executable.)
>
> Is this wording used currently in other instances of this exception? It
Yes, it is.
> seems poorly worded with me. What does "combinations with other programs"
> mean? And a "combine executable" seems to me to mean an executable used to
> control a piece of farm machinery -- this should be "combined executable"
> instead.
>
> --
> Jonathan Lennox
> lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu
>
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer