From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT no DOT spam DOT please>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: template classes with DJGPP
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:34:04 +0100
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In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.970810100201.29026A-100000-100000-100000-10000
0-100000 AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>, Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT phys
ics.utoronto.ca> writes
>By the way, I think that any DJGPP/GCC user should consider carefully 
>bitching about LGPL.  Without it neither wonderful program would exist, 
>not for free anyway.

The LGPL exists because enough people 'bitched' about the GPL for the
FSF to do something ;)

The exemptions for iostreams, libc probably exist because people
'bitched' about the LGPL on standard language elements.

The STL is free because the FSF don't have the copyright and cannot
easily bind it to their own definition of 'free'.

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