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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik, 120dB or more)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: GNU C Compiler
Message-ID: <13187@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 91 01:38:31 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.073856.4235@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1991Apr24.171005.12418@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr25.153513.27353@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr25.153513.27353@m.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>>Apple has two different ports of gcc.  Apple distributes an A/UX version,
>>source and binaries, for a fee.  Don't act surprised, FSF charges money
>>for tapes too, and they don't include the binaries.
>
>This is not true. The port of A/UX done by David Berry (formerly of
>Apple) and maintained by me is distributed for free via ftp from either
>Apple or wuarchive.wustl.edu (the wuarchive version tends to be more
>up-to-date). As far as I know, no one has ever tried to charge for this;
>the only case under which I would consider charging is a nominal fee if
>someone needs it mailed on diskettes (I might want a dollor or two per
>disk to cover time spent copying things, nothing more). Source and
>binaries are available. Any changes would be happily given back to the
>FSF, if they wanted them; we're staying within the spirit of the GPL.

True, it is actually dangerous to take money of the FSF products due
to their 'Copyleft' statement. Any FSF tool should be shipped with
the binaries and code. And the money taken should be part of the 
distribution and media costs. Now ftp is nearly for free (well, some
tax payers have to pay the bill..).

Kent


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Kent Sandvik, DTS junkie