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[Discuss] Stallman stubborn



On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:26:54 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/15/2015 11:55 AM, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote:
>> Those earlier compilers were free in the sense that you didn't have to
>> pay for them, but most were not freely distributable in the way that
>> GCC is. For starters, they were offered only for operating systems
>
> GCC is /not/ freely distributable. The GPL places a number of
> requirements on how software is distributed.

Only a problem if you modify it.
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