Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:26:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Joshua James Turpen <44699 AT ef DOT gc DOT maricopa DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: patches GPL your software?!?!? rediculous!
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Joshua James Turpen wrote:

> What?!?!  You mean to tell me that the LWP 2.0 library that I wrote, that
> patches __dpmi_int so that it works under Windows 95, is GPL'd because of
> the patch?  Rediculous.  I would rather release buggy software (buggy
> because it doesn't patch things) than have my code that I labored over
> become GPL'd.

Aren't you forgetting that this ``ridiculous'' GPL was the one that
enabled you to have all these wonderful development tools in the first
place?

If GPL is so much unacceptable to you, you can always either write
your own replacements for buggy library functions, like you would with
commercial compilers, or work around the bugs in the application code,
or live with the bugs.