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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Lotus 1-2-3 was compiled with GNU C compiler!?
Message-ID: <3666@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 15 Jul 90 02:49:02 GMT
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 >>Yea, I was just asked to port some stuff to the DG AViiON and guess
 >>what, gcc is the C compiler that comes with DG's unix.  What ever happened
 >>to all the copyleft concerns?  Does this mean the source to lotus 123
 >>and all of unix (at least DG's version) is now in the public domain?
 >
 >I believe DG supplies GCC with a DG-written gnulib, that
 >is not covered by the copyleft.

Or, to put it another way, "just because something is *compiled* with
GCC doesn't mean it's GNUware; it has to include GNU code directly, not
assembly-language code extruded by GCC."

(I don't know what "gnulib" is, but they probably provide an
AT&T-and-Berkeley-and-DG-and-assorted-other-people-written "libc", just
like most other UNIX vendors.)