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Subject: Next and copyleft
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Date: 20 Jul 89 22:54:55 GMT
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A few weeks ago, I found out, along with the readers of this list,
that NeXT was distributing proprietary code for the user to link with
GCC.  A while later, I told them this was not permitted and asked them
to stop.

Apparently, through a noisy communication channel with me, they had
got the impression that I had said this was ok.

They agreed to stop distributing the proprietary front-end, as I
requested.  They have written a new, free objective C front-end which
will be released soon by them, and merged into the standard GNU C
distribution when I have time.