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From: burgett@steel.COM (Michael Burgett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU c and c++ under MINIX
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Date: 16 Sep 88 19:23:18 GMT
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In article <206@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
|
|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.
|
I'm not even sure that rms could stop anyone from distributing gcc with a 
commercial product.... the "copyleft" states that you must

1) Not sell *gcc*

2) mark your changes as such

3) provide source (or agree to provide source) to gcc to whomever you gave the 
   binary.

it seems to me that if PH met the spirit of that agreement then there would
be little that the FSF could do. (but then there's a reason that I'm a 
programmer and not a lawyer. :') )

Mike Burgett

adobe!burgett@decwrl.dec.com