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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception" |
Date: | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:19:38 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
If I write foo.c and compile it to foo.o, I don't think there are pieces there. I then link it with a few other files and it becomes the executable foo. The only bits in there which aren't my copyright are analogues of the book's cover and printing.
That's not correct. The executable foo may contain pieces (or the entirety, even) of works whose copyright is owned by someone other than you. Some of them may be requested by you as part of the link process, and some of them may be placed there automatically by the linker without your specific request. Your "book printing" analogy is apt; the cover art will generally be covered by a copyright owned by someone other than the book author.
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