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Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- To: cgf at redhat dot com (Christopher Faylor)
- Subject: Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:48:16 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, alain at qnx dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:00:44PM -0500, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> >I cannot see any convincing argument that could be made in court or
> >anywhere else that would permit U/Win to be regarded as something that
> >meets the exception clause of the GPL. It is quite clear that this
> >software is *not* "normally distributed ..."
>
> Ditto Interix, IMO.
Interix is a trickier case: it is owned by the OS vendor and is being
marketed as "a native subsystem to Windows". I don't know the answer,
but there are issues that distinguish it from U/WIN that may matter.
But RMS is going to look at it, I think.