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Re: [avr-gcc-list] Using hardware multiplier on ATmega128L
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Richard Urwin |
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Re: [avr-gcc-list] Using hardware multiplier on ATmega128L |
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Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:36:57 +0100 |
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On Monday 25 Oct 2004 3:14 am, Greg Barron wrote:
> Of course being pedantic, if you lift code out of the library like
> that, doesn't your entire solution become open source?
Being equally pedantic, no. You only lay yourself open to a copyright
claim from the author.
That author may say, as OSS people often do, that opening your source is
the only adequate remedy, but you can always just rewrite the code and
never distribute libc again. Mind you, that would be painful.
--
Richard Urwin