Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: GCC output licensing (Re: Questions on NeXT machine)
Summary: restrictions apply only if you include FSF's code
Keywords: NeXT
Message-ID: <5056@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 21:06:50 GMT
References: <17780@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <[9.5]karl@ddsw1.alt.next> <25146@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <12935@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <12935@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
 [ about programs compiled with gcc having distribution limitations ]
>True it couldn't copyright mine, BUT the license specifically REQUIRES
>to ship the "sources" of the product compiled with GNU-C.

This is not true (See GNU General Public License).  A compiled program
is only subject to the GNU distribution requirements if it has been
linked with routines or libraries that are part of GCC or some other
FSF distribution.

I would expect that NeXT's port of gcc comes with libraries that NeXT
wrote and allows to be distributed (as AT&T allows for the pcc libraries).
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