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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!tchrist
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:10:34 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
References: <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP>
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Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
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>From the keyboard of rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly):
:There is
:no court record to show what happens when the buyer of a commercial software
:product demands source from the author because it was compiled using GCC,
:and should fall under the GNU Copyleft.  

Please stop spreading panic amongst the excitable masses:  compiling
with gcc in no way encumbers your code with the copyleft.

BTW, I've never had much luck getting GCC to compile anything; my shell
always tells me "Command not found."  gcc works much better.

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
The notion of a "record" is an obsolete remnant of the days of the
80-column card.
                -- Dennis M. Ritchie