Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:58:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Legal `restrictions' of the STL
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Tobias =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ro=DFmann?= wrote:

> The FAQ (2.11) says, that it is enough to mention the BSD copyright

Even this is not required anymore: as of July 1999, BSD withdrew the
wording that made this mandatory.

> If I don't misunderstand the notice below, it is
> also required to mention SGI's and HP's copyright in the docs, if the STL
> is used.

You don't get the SGI's and HP's versions of the STL, at least not in
gppNNNb.zip.  What you get is the GNU version of the standard C++
library, which includes a certain implementation of the STL.  As the
FAQ explains in section 19.1, this library (libstdcxx.a) doesn't bring
your application under any restrictions, except if you compile your
program with a compiler other than GCC (which won't happen as long as
you use DJGPP).