Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!guitar.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@guitar.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Nine Gold Coins... Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 89 16:46:40 GMT References: <12392@altos86.Altos.COM> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 13 In-reply-to: dtynan@altos86.Altos.COM's message of 2 Aug 89 05:25:30 GMT This is not correct. Source compiled by GCC can be sold, and can be sold without distribution of the source. Witness the NeXT system; their entire system is compiled using GCC, and they don't distribute their display system nor their operating system. Not to mention that it explicitly states in the GPL for GCC that this is reasonable. But I agree with your point; if you want to sell something, spend money for the tools. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)