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Date:      COMSPEC=C:\4DOS\4DOS.COM 26 Jul 96 19:29:25 PST
From:      "Philip Chan" <philipch@STDIM.xstor.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   question on GNU general public license
Message-ID:  <9606308387.AA838787964@STDIM.XSTOR.COM>

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     Hi,
     
        I have some questions on the GNU general public license.
     
        1. If I developed an application program that runs on BSD system, 
     do I need to send my application source code to the user (my 
     customers)?
     
        2. If I developed a disk driver that load into the BSD system, do I 
     need to send my driver source code to the user (my customer)?
     
        The above 2 cases assumes that I have made no change to the BSD 
     src, I just use the existing interface published by BSD.
     
     
        3. What if I modify the BSD to support my API. I developed a driver 
     using my API. Now, I need to send the source code of the modified BSD 
     to my customer, do I need to send them the source code of the driver I 
     developed which use the new API I add?
     
     
        I appreciate your time in responding to my questions above. It does 
     impact my decision on which OS I should develop my product on. I would 
     like to follow the license agreement the best I could in understanding 
     the requirements.
     
     
        Thanks again for your kindly response.
     
     
        Philip Chan




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