Re: [probably OFFTOPIC] Linux & DEC Unix, allowed to share

Colin Plumb (colin@nyx.net)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:22:45 -0600 (MDT)

It depends on the library, but the status quo is that compiler vendors
don't mind you distributing binary copies if theor library as long as
it's linked in somewhere. Thus, commpercial app writers don't have to
make any special arrangements to ship binaries.

This all predates widespread use of shared libraries, but I doubt it's
changed. Some binary vendors like to ship statically linked images to
reduce the potential for configuration errors, and the Linux world is
full of statically linked Motif binaries for exactly the same reason -
it's legal to do that.

So while DEC holds copyright to the library and could in theory do
something rude, I expect you have permission. That's the common
general case.

-- 
	-Colin


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