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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.011034.14945@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:10:34 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com
- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
- not necessarily those of CONVEX.
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- From the keyboard of rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly):
- :There is
- :no court record to show what happens when the buyer of a commercial software
- :product demands source from the author because it was compiled using GCC,
- :and should fall under the GNU Copyleft.
-
- Please stop spreading panic amongst the excitable masses: compiling
- with gcc in no way encumbers your code with the copyleft.
-
- BTW, I've never had much luck getting GCC to compile anything; my shell
- always tells me "Command not found." gcc works much better.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
- The notion of a "record" is an obsolete remnant of the days of the
- 80-column card.
- -- Dennis M. Ritchie
-