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From: tbomb!time (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Experience with GCC on MPW?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 12:38:56 EST
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In article <3101@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, py198723@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Eugenio Sanchez Pe~a) writes:
> 	The GNU project has as a deadline not to develop anything for the
> Macintosh, since Apple is claiming exclusive rights for their look-and-feel
> interface. Perhaps someone took the front-end sources and made his own
> C compiler, but it shouldn't be named 'GCC'.

No. Someone took the gcc compiler and ported it to MPW.
It is gcc. Check the source license. By GNU's very own manifesto and
license, the port is allowed. GNU simply refuses to exhaust any of
*its* valuable resources doing this work. Thus, the MPW gcc work is
somewhat of an orphan in that GNU will neither support nor redistribute
it.

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