[Discuss] Stallman stubborn

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 12:26:54 EST 2015


On 11/15/2015 11:55 AM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey 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.

-- 
Rich P.



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