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- From: brad@wendel.jpl.nasa.gov (Brad Pickering)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: MPW stuff on ftp.apple.com
- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:27:54
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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- I don't see anything in the licensing information that would prevent
- someone from downloading and using things like the MPW C include files,
- the MPW libraries, or even MPW itself, even if you didn't own MPW
- already.
-
- The reason I ask is because if we successfully get a free C compiler
- working that was compatable with the c includes and the libraries, we
- could use these files from ftp.apple.com instead of having to create
- our own. Doesn't this bother Apple?
-
- To take this to the extreme. I don't see why you couldn't get MPW
- from the archive, and MPW perl from ftp.msen.com, and then write
- perl scripts to replace most of the mpw tools. Would this bother
- Apple?
-
- I'm just curious. Anyone have comments?
-
- Brad
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