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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: Gnu C Compiler for MPW Unchained!
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.234435.9705@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 23:44:35 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.104620.6232@chinet.chi.il.us> laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal) writes:

[stuff about Apple releasing MPW source]
>>The key phrase is "for making modifications to it," 
>>
>I believe it was made clear that there was a nasty bug in the compiler
>which prevented it from being usable if it were compiled by itself.
>That is, it was only usable if produced by MPW C.  That being the case,
>where does the C compiler begin and where does it end?  Standard libraries
>are one thing, usable source code is another.  If the fix to the bug in
>source code lies in other source code...should the license not cover that
>other source code?

The ROMs are a standard library, you know.  We know that many are buggy.
Should Apple then release the ROM source?

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