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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU c and c++ under MINIX
Message-ID: <206@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 02:10:53 GMT
References: <2358@alliant.Alliant.COM> <7656@bcsaic.UUCP> <68536@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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In article <68536@sun.uucp> alanf%smile@Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson) writes:
>
>There are some problems using GCC with products that are sold for profit.  Even
>though MINIX is cheap it is not free, and I don't think that P-H would
>be able to distribute the compiler.  There may be some way around this, but you
>may find yourself in court if you are not careful.
>
>I think that RMS has already said that he does not want FSF software to be
>distributed with MINIX.  I don't know why.

The current discussion is about *PORTING* GNU tools to MINIX, not about
*DISTRIBUTING* them WITH MINIX.

The enduser CAN use GCC with products which are sold for profit, otherwise it
would be illegal to use GCC with either UNIX or MS-DOS, since both of these
are sold for profit, the one by AT&T, the other by Microsoft. Likewise, all of
the computers GNU software runs on are "products sold for profit".

RMS does not want FSF software distributed with MINIX because MINIX is
a commercial product, being sold for profit. But as I said, that has nothing
to do with USING FSF software with MINIX -- you just need to get it from a
different source.

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