kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz) (07/25/89)
In article <20006@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes: |In article <796@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, kemnitz@mitisft (Gregory Kemnitz) writes: |>Due to copyleft (see thread on comp.lang.c++) gcc cannot be used on |>production code. | |Sorry to pollute yet another news group with endless digressions on |interpreting the GNU copyleft... However, Gregory Kemnitz's statement |above is NOT TRUE. GCC certainly can and is being used to compile All I know is that some lawyers I have talked to about this claim that this GNU copyleft causes problems in distributing binaries. Other lawyers probably disagree. I am sure that this will be decided in court someday, and all the USENET bandwidth being wasted on this issue will be for naught. Follow-up to misc.legal. |commercial production code. | Who were their lawyers?? What happens the first time they try to prosecute someone for piracy?? Anyone for comp.legal?? :-) |The problematic issues under discussion in comp.lang.c++ involves |certain GNU *libraries*, e.g., libg++. I refer you to the past 2 or 3 |weeks of posting on that news group for more details. | |Doug | | |-- |Master Swordsman speak of humility; | schmidt@ics.uci.edu (ARPA) |Philosophers speak of truth; | office: (714) 856-4034 |Saints and wisemen speak of the Tao of no doubt; |The moon, sun, and sea speaks for itself. -- Hiroshi Hamada ----------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Greg Kemnitz | Software without hardware is an idea. kemnitz@Convergent.COM | Hardware without software is a space heater. | | --Unknown author