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Article #73401Re: NeXT
From: Miron Cuperman
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1991 18:27
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1991 18:27
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wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes: >In <1991Sep17.001806.3409@cs.sfu.ca> miron@cs.sfu.ca (Miron Cuperman) writes: >>NeXT violated the GPL since they did not release the source code of their >>modified GNU programs. It doesn't look like the people at GNU are >>doing anything about this, so maybe they are not really serious about >>the GPL. >Is this true? I heard that NeXT had given the modifications to gcc (including >Objective-C) to the FSF... Well, that's no good enough. The GPL states that if they deliver executables to anybody, they must agree to deliver the sources to that same person if so requested. They failed to do that with me and other people. -- Forever, Miron Cuperman <miron@cs.sfu.ca>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f43302c8b69a124a X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-18 07:56:44 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!fornax!miron From: miron@cs.sfu.ca (Miron Cuperman) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: NeXT Message-ID: <1991Sep17.182743.5315@cs.sfu.ca> Date: 17 Sep 91 18:27:43 GMT References: <1991Sep14.025539.4157@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Sep17.001806.3409@cs.sfu.ca> <964@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> Organization: Simon Fraser University Lines: 18 X-Md4-Signature: 56c8ab85a0f52c401ac09ea717b68f90