Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!fornax!oneill From: oneill@fornax.UUCP (Richard Oneill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Sources to NeXT's Gnu C Summary: Isn't NeXT charging over the odds for *free* sources... Keywords: Gnu, CopyLeft, Gcc, Free sources Message-ID: <2362@fornax.UUCP> Date: 26 Mar 91 07:15:38 GMT References: <5994@awdprime.UUCP> <835@mara.cognet.ucla.edu> <1991Mar26.043146.13521@engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: oneill@phoenix.UUCP (Richard Oneill) Distribution: world Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada Lines: 35 In article <1991Mar26.043146.13521@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes: >In article <835@mara.cognet.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: >>Does anyone know how I can get sources to NeXT's implementation of Gnu >>CC, preferably via anonymous ftp? ... > > From the Fall 1990 Registered Developers Price List: > NeXT 2.0 GNU Source Code on Floppy Disks part # N5514 > $150 List, $105 Developer Price > > I don't know if it's available by other means. (And hey, you can get the >Mach source for a mere $10,000 either way! Wotta deal! ;-) > > Nik I thought cc, cc++, ld and as were derived from Gnu sources, and as such they should (as far as I understand) come under the Gnu copyleft, i.e. they and their sources should be freely distributable. The Gnu copyleft says that NeXT '... may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a copy ...' but $150 for a few disks of 'free software' - this seems a bit steep to me. I'm surprised that noone has put these 'free' sources on nova.cs.purdue.edu or cs.orst.edu. Is it that after parting with $150, no one is willing to share...? Or is it another 'virtual product' ? Richard. P.S. Does anyone know if NeXT is going to upgrade its compilers etc to reflect the changes made in later Gnu versions, or are the NeXT ones frozen in time? -- Composing a suitably apt and witty .signature is left | oneill@fornax.UUCP as an exercise for the reader. | oneill@cs.sfu.ca