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Article #74477Re: Money for GCC - porting ??
From: Dan L. Pierson
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 21:09
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 21:09
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Regarding Money for GCC - porting ??; geissler@D012S050@ap542.uucp (Norbert Geissler) adds:
> my questions:
> 1) Do you think, this is legal ?
It is clearly legal and arguably within the spirit of the GPL. What
they *can't* do is attempt to prevent you from redistributing the
modified GCC on any terms you want, including totally free. This does
tend to have an effect on the commercial viability of expensive
*unsupported* GCC ports...
--
dan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,8f0403173f62c1e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-04-25 04:09:24 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!encore!pierson From: pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Money for GCC - porting ?? Message-ID: <PIERSON.91Apr24170943@xenna.encore.com> Date: 24 Apr 91 21:09:43 GMT References: <1991Apr24.085545.20790@ap542.uucp> Sender: news@Encore.COM Distribution: gnu Organization: Encore Computer Corporation Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: xenna.encore.com In-reply-to: geissler@D012S050@ap542.uucp's message of 24 Apr 91 08:55:45 GMT