Re: Handspring, gcc and gpl: appearance vs. reality

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From: Peter W
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:00

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Till Harbaum wrote:

> Under http://info.handspring.com/developers_kit.html
> Handspring offers a development kit for their soon to
> come visor pdas. Some of the tools in this package
> are based on gnu tools which all come under the gpl.

Please be more specific. Handspring's SDK is divided in two parts:

1) Cygwin.exe Ver B20.1
2) PalmOSGNUToolsLite.exe REV 1.02

The first sounds like a standard Cygnus win32 SDK. If Handspring
hasn't modified it, then I don't see any big deal in not making source
available on Handspring's site.

The second is the Palm-specific stuff. What GPL'ed code does it use?
Any? Are you certain that Handspring is building on top of GPL'ed code
improperly, or is this just a naming issue, like "CodeWarrior for
Linux, GNU Edition"?

-Peter

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