Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU!dvorak From: dvorak@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Darko Volaric) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MPW and Think Message-ID: <1991Jun30.055014.18393@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Date: 30 Jun 91 05:50:14 GMT References: Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU Organization: Uni Computing Service, Uni of Sydney, Australia Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au In article peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes: > >In article <1991Jun29.075457.28418@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, dvorak@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Darko Volaric) writes: >> Mr Sandwich sez: >> >same with the MPW GNU gcc (if someone dares to produce commercial binaries using >> >that compiler). >> Mmm...didn't Mr Jobs, Perot, et al, dare a few million by compiling the Next OS >> with the GNU compiler? >> >> I think you may be being a wee bit paranoid, and giving the wrong impression. >> Using the GNU compiler goes not mean that you have to give away the source to >> your program. IF you modify THE COMPILER and distribute it, your must also >> freely distribute your modifications. > >I believe the libraries that come with gcc are covered by the FSF >CopyLeft. You're not required to use the GNU libraries. MPW GCC uses MPW libraries, for instance. > >Remember, the Free Software Foundation is *actively* discouraging >for-profit use of their sofitware. I'm not so sure about that. They may be discouraging unscrupulous use of their software, but on whole I think their main concern is the freedom of source code and that lots of people use it. If they didn't want people to make money out of their software, they wouldn't let hardware vendors sell machines with their software on it. I'm not the FSF. One should mail them (at gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu, I think) if one wants to get definitive answers... Darko Volaric