Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <5077@ficc.uu.net> Date: 19 Jul 89 14:27:49 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 29 In article <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>, dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) writes: > First, being required to freely distribute code does not exactly > prevent you from using the compiler. If you're not a private hobbyist or a university (and not even always then) it sure does. > Second, a program compiled by GCC is not a derivative of GCC. That's the question innit? > It's certainly not a "modified copy or copies of GNU CC". Well a case could be made that the library isn't, either. If you extend the concept "modified copy or copies" to include library code, then you can extend it further. > Stallman and the FSF have better things to do than sue people who try > to use their products. Get real, we're not talking about Apple or > Microsoft here. They don't even *have* a legal department. And if they're not willing or able to enforce the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE it's not worth the paper it's printed on. The fact that it exists implies they're willing to do so. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "A char, a short int, and Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | an int bit-field were walking Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | through the forest..."