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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GNU tools on Mac OS?
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.030241.1713@servalan.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 90 03:02:41 GMT
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coolidge@casca.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes:

>es2q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Warren Selberg) writes:
>>tell me, since Apple is making Gnu C, are they taking the philosophy of
>>public domain and making GNU C free?  8)

>is distributed. I suspect that Apple will be happy to comply with
>the license, so both Gnu C and the source changes should be free.

Considering that they already have done so with the GCC port to A/UX that
David Berry of Apple did (both source and A/UX binaries are available for 
anon ftp from apple.com), it'd be surprising indeed if they didn't
follow the same route with the MacOS GCC port. 
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