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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:09:40 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9208192309.42@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug19.011034.14945@news.eng.convex.com>
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- In article <1992Aug19.011034.14945@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >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.
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- I always think of GCC as GNU C, and gcc as Greenhills C. :-)
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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