Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!apple!usc!merlin.usc.edu!usc.edu!raulmill From: raulmill@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Objective Gnu? Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 89 19:47:05 GMT References: <45768@bbn.COM> <124947@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@merlin.usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 23 In-reply-to: raburns%ecotopia@Sun.COM's message of 19 Sep 89 17:03:16 GMT In article <124947@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> raburns%ecotopia@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) writes: ;> In article <45768@bbn.COM> bpalmer@bbn.com (Brian Palmer) writes: ;> > In "The NeXT Book" by Bruce Webster, he says: (page 134) ;> > Objective C . . . Release 0.9 has merged the Objective C syntax ;> > with the the Gnu C compiler . . . I see a Copyleft violation ;> > right? ;> ;> I had heard . . . NeXT was going to make their Objective C compiler ;> GNUware. . . . but there still is a problem: the NeXT objective C ;> compiler will still only run on NeXT machines (which have a highly ;> proprietary design). ;> . . . ;> I think the Free Software Foundation could best correct this ;> situation and meet it's long term purpose by having a more flexible ;> policy towards leasing out proprietary right to modify its code for ;> a limited period of time. I'm confused by this last line. If Objective C is available in source, and if the CAPABILITY exists in the environment to support it, it should be quite possible to modify the source to run in your environment. --