chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (07/10/90)
According to peterf@haddock.ima.isc.com (Peter Fischman): > I recently came off a project that ported a DOS application, > Lotus 1-2-3 (you may have heard of it), to System V and Xenix. > We developed on 386/ix and used gcc and gmake. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oh, this is rich. Lotus ("We're Not Competitive, So We Sue Everyone") Corporation compiles its flagship product... with the GNU C compiler. I'm so amused I could just vomit. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
hogue@hsi.UUCP (Jim Hogue) (07/13/90)
In article <2699D59A.D60@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >Lotus ("We're Not Competitive, So We Sue Everyone") Corporation >compiles its flagship product... with the GNU C compiler. Yea, I was just asked to port some stuff to the DG AViiON and guess what, gcc is the C compiler that comes with DG's unix. What ever happened to all the copyleft concerns? Does this mean the source to lotus 123 and all of unix (at least DG's version) is now in the public domain? -- It was too wet to go out. Too cold to play ball. So we sat in the house. We did nothing at all -- Dr. Seuss So they invented computers! Jim Hogue hogue@hsi.com or {uunet, yale}!hsi!hogue
pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) (07/13/90)
hogue@hsi.UUCP (Jim Hogue) writes: >Yea, I was just asked to port some stuff to the DG AViiON and guess >what, gcc is the C compiler that comes with DG's unix. What ever happened >to all the copyleft concerns? Does this mean the source to lotus 123 >and all of unix (at least DG's version) is now in the public domain? I believe DG supplies GCC with a DG-written gnulib, that is not covered by the copyleft. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (07/15/90)
>>Yea, I was just asked to port some stuff to the DG AViiON and guess >>what, gcc is the C compiler that comes with DG's unix. What ever happened >>to all the copyleft concerns? Does this mean the source to lotus 123 >>and all of unix (at least DG's version) is now in the public domain? > >I believe DG supplies GCC with a DG-written gnulib, that >is not covered by the copyleft. Or, to put it another way, "just because something is *compiled* with GCC doesn't mean it's GNUware; it has to include GNU code directly, not assembly-language code extruded by GCC." (I don't know what "gnulib" is, but they probably provide an AT&T-and-Berkeley-and-DG-and-assorted-other-people-written "libc", just like most other UNIX vendors.)
niklas@appli.se (Niklas Hallqvist) (07/15/90)
In article <1990Jul13.134649.1794@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes: > hogue@hsi.UUCP (Jim Hogue) writes: > > >Yea, I was just asked to port some stuff to the DG AViiON and guess > >what, gcc is the C compiler that comes with DG's unix. What ever happened > >to all the copyleft concerns? Does this mean the source to lotus 123 > >and all of unix (at least DG's version) is now in the public domain? > > I believe DG supplies GCC with a DG-written gnulib, that > is not covered by the copyleft. What's the matter with you? Even if DG supplies GCC with another gnulib, the FSF version of gnulib is *not* restricted by the GNU General Public License. There has never been the case that programs compiled with GCC falls under the copyleft just for that reason. Who have you been listening to? If this was the case the GNU project would be virtually useless! Noone but academics would be using FSF software. FSF would die because they wouldn't get any donations. BTW. Do you think that because you archived a program with the GNU tar, you also make your program PD? It's just an analogy, but a striking one. Niklas --- Niklas Hallqvist Phone: +46-(0)31-19 14 85 Applitron Datasystem Fax: +46-(0)31-19 80 89 N. Gubberogatan 30 Email: niklas@appli.se S-416 63 GOTEBORG sunic!chalmers!appli!niklas Sweden