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Article #62936Re: GPL Status of Machine Descriptions
From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00
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mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >Compilations and assembler runs work from machine descriptions for >the target. My question is whether machine descriptions are under the >GPL. Yes, they are. >Suppose I purchase a commercial product that packages the usual >GCC compilers, binaries, sources and all, on a CD, for host A, target A. > >(1) Can I assume that the A machine descriptions will necessarily > be included? If it's a "sources and all" distribution, then yes. (But the vendor can alternatively give you a written offer to provide them, valid for at least 3 years, rather than putting them on the CD - see section 3 of the GPL.) -- Fergus Henderson - fjh@munta.cs.mu.oz.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,2decd88e9a9fda63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: GPL Status of Machine Descriptions Date: 1995/04/01 Message-ID: <9509116.20235@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> X-Deja-AN: 100673676 sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU (CS-Usenet) references: <3ksdvo$8f7@felix.seas.gwu.edu> organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss