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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Comparing anything to NetBSD
Date: 12 Sep 1993 02:01:47 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: sef@kithrup.com's message of Sun, 12 Sep 1993 01:31:11 GMT
In article <CD7w8F.16M@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
writes:
In article <MYCROFT.93Sep11210818@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
Who is distributing GCC in such a way that it violates the GPL?
You.
Last time I checked, sources for gcc were included in the source
distribution. That is all that is necessary.
The GPL specifically defines `source' as `the preferred form for
editing'. FreeBSD includes only pre-generated insn-* files, not the
original machines descriptions.
I have told the FreeBSD people about this a couple of times. They
could have simply picked up the GCC 2 from NetBSD 0.9 (which I fixed
myself), but they have not done so.