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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: DG ships 'gcc' by default
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Date: 10 Oct 89 14:53:44 GMT
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	"Nowhere in the DG docs (I looked) included the FSF General
	Agreement or any copyright/copyleft information separate from
	DG's own legalese ... The DG documentation alluded that DG had
	made 'improvements' on the GCC code. I do not know whether the
	source for such improvements was either made available in
	source or offered to the FSF."

It has, it was, they do.

I have been working with Michael Meissner (meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM), who
has done the work of bringing GCC-88k up to production quality.  It has
always been his intention to comply fully with the copyleft.  He
prodded DG's lawyers into signing the appropriate paperwork; he has
been returning his modifications to rms (and posting bug reports to the
lists); and he maintains the latest archive in ~ftp/pub/gnu at site
dg-rtp.dg.com (inet number 128.222.1.2.)

As further evidence of DG's good faith, he has regularly distributed
his work-in-progress to us at Tektronix, nominally a direct competitor
of theirs.

If the copyleft license is missing from the Aviion package, I'm sure
it's because of a documentation/packaging oversight, not because of any
malicious intent.

	"Does the DG system use GNU or AT&T libraries (if GNU, then I
	assume the compiled binaries are subject to copyleft)."

What GNU libraries?  The only interesting one I know of is libg++,
which is only a candidate if you distribute a G++ compiler.  As far as
I know, DG doesn't yet.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]