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From: wegrzyn@cdx39.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNU C
Message-ID: <686@cdx39.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 08:49:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 26 08:49:33 1987
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  First of all this discussion belongs in the C language newsgroup and not
in the EMACS newsgroup. 

  Secondly, if my recollection is correct, part of the money to develop the
C compiler - through the hiring of Len Tower - came from a foundation headed
by the president of Ann Arbor Terminal. In a conversation I had with him
many, many months ago he mentioned that the foundation gives money to develop
programs and other works. As part of the requirement that the foundation be
tax-exempt all works developed by the foundation had to be placed in the
public domain. Hence, my question is 

	Is the GNU C compiler in the public domain or does it have
	the same license as does the GNU Emacs editor?


I think that this needs to be addressed because unlike Gnu Emacs which was
written by Stallman with his 'nickel', part of (or all of) the GNU C compiler
was written with "public funds".


			Chuck Wegrzyn,

			not a Codex employee, just a user of their machine

			cdx39!wegrzyn