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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Questions on NeXT machine
Keywords: NeXT
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Date: 20 Oct 88 02:34:39 GMT
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In article <25146@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>>Or must I follow the GNU General license with regards to my product
>>if compiled using that compiler, essentially reducing the value of
>>the product to zero?  If the second case holds true (ie: you can't
>>really resell compiled binaries)
>
>This issue gets rehashed frequently on the GNU newsgroups.  If you
>read the License, you'll note that FSF only copyrights its work, and
>it certainly couldn't copyright yours.

True it couldn't copyright mine, BUT the license specifically REQUIRES
to ship the "sources" of the product compiled with GNU-C.  While this
might be OK for a university project, I can see no company doing that.
As I understand it, NO software bundled with the Next box has been built
with GNU-C, but instead with Stepstone Objective-C.  Do I get the source
of those bundled programs? I doubt that.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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