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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:09:40 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9208192309.42@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug19.011034.14945@news.eng.convex.com> Lines: 18 In article <1992Aug19.011034.14945@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >From the keyboard of rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly): >:There is >:no court record to show what happens when the buyer of a commercial software >:product demands source from the author because it was compiled using GCC, >:and should fall under the GNU Copyleft. > >Please stop spreading panic amongst the excitable masses: compiling >with gcc in no way encumbers your code with the copyleft. > >BTW, I've never had much luck getting GCC to compile anything; my shell >always tells me "Command not found." gcc works much better. I always think of GCC as GNU C, and gcc as Greenhills C. :-) -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP