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In article <930111.173628.1c8.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:

   Does this mean that because NeXT supply a copy of gcc which
   requires the NeXT C libraries, they must make the NeXT C libraries
   available to me free of charge in source code form?  If so, hadn't
   you better tell them that?

The GPL contains an explicit clause covering this:

However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on)
of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
component itself accompanies the executable.


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