From: Thomas Demmer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: patches GPL your software?!?!? rediculous! Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:33:10 +0100 Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik Lines: 42 Message-ID: <34B90256.9D692045@LSTM.Ruhr-UNI-Bochum.De> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bvb.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: Christopher Croughton To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Christopher Croughton wrote: > > > Or as another example, if I release a program using the ANSI function > > tmpfile, which is broken in the DJGPP library, and include a version > > of the code which includes a patch SO THAT IT WORKS (by not working > > DJGPP is not the ANSI-compliant system which it claims to be) then > > that program is made GPL. > > If you don't mind letting everyone else benefit from the patch, then > submit the necessary patch to DJ, and this problem is solved. But if > somebody *does* mind, if they want to have the patched tmpfile, large > parts of which were written by DJ Delorie, just for themselves, then I > have no sympathy for these people. And while we're just at this, send me patch and a short description, too. And have a look at ftp://ftp.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/djgpp/patches because I do have the feeling that this special function has been fixed already. So people can benefit from patches already _before_ the next release of libc. There are a lot of people out there spending time and money for keeping this project up (in my case government money ;-), so helping to fix bugs is not such a big deal, isn't it? -- Ciao Tom ************************************************************* * Thomas Demmer * * Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik * * Ruhr-Uni-Bochum * * Universitaetsstr. 150 * * D-44780 Bochum * * Tel: +49 234 700 6434 * * Fax: +49 234 709 4162 * * http://www.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~demmer * *************************************************************