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- From: obi@finnbogi.ocs.com (Obi Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
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- Sender: obi@finnbogi (Obi Thomas)
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- References: <1993Jan5.075021.970@shawn.uucp> <1993Jan05.231932.21087@eng.umd.edu> <lkmpp8INN4f4@news.bbn.com> <1993Jan12.074807.29468@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:44:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.074807.29468@netcom.com>, tenney@netcom.com
- (Glenn S. Tenney) writes:
- > Yes, you can legally use these compilers on all of your machines, and
- > it is a very nice compiler. BUT --> if you ever sell your programs,
- > and they use the libraries (oh, let's say you do a printf somewhere),
- > then you must make ALL of your source code available for free.
-
- I believe this is true, but...
-
- The SunOS gcc which I use is happy linking with the Sun-provided C
- library. In fact, linking with the Sun C library is preferable, because
- it's a shareable library.
-
- There is a GNU runtime library libgcc.a which provides support for varargs
- and some other stuff, but I don't *think* that's restricted (correct me if
- I'm wrong, please).
-
- It *is* a very nice compiler. I find that the code it generates
- outperforms that from the Sun bundled C compiler for CPU-intensive tasks
- by a good margin. And in the new Solaris environment with its extra-cost C
- compiler, gcc may be the only C compiler available for some users.
-
- > Now, if the FSF changed their position on this, then I'd say
- > they're open to re-thinking certain boycotts... Why don't they also
- > boycott Hayes, or IBM? IBM does some serious work protecting their
- > intellectual property and they are very big on object-code-only too.
-
- My understanding on this is that FSF is not boycotting Apple because they
- don't provide source code. They support Sun, which doesn't provide source
- either. I thought they were boycotting Apple in support for the LPF's
- position that attempts to copyright "look-and-feel" are wrong (i.e.,
- because of Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft).
-