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Re: Objective-C legacy code (ex: New Objective-C maintainer)
- To: ovidiu at cup dot hp dot com (Ovidiu Predescu)
- Subject: Re: Objective-C legacy code (ex: New Objective-C maintainer)
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:30:56 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: sven dot koehler at infopark dot de (Sven Koehler), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, shebs at apple dot com (Stan Shebs)
Ovidiu writes:
> So far Apple's runtime is not released under GPL and is certainly not
> copyrighted by FSF. As long as this remains true, there is no way Apple's
> runtime can be distributed with GCC.
The FSF has not insisted on owning all of the libraries distributed with
gcc, though it wants to own all of gcc (the compiler) itself. The FSF has
also accepted other licenses besides the GPL, though any license would
have to be GPL-compatible and free software.