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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!fuug!funic!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) In-Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <1992Aug25.062100.15187@nntp.hut.fi> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland References: <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <YSDIBS4@taronga.com> <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 06:21:00 GMT Lines: 12 >Software houses such as Lotus and Wordperfect want complete assurance that >their product is secure under the law when it goes out the door. 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. Hmm - I think I've heard that Commodore(-Amiga) uses gcc to compile their **ix OS and Lotus (yep, of the 1-2-3 and lawsuit fame) uses gcc to compile their products. And then there's DG which ships gcc as the native compiler. //Jyrki