unintended usage of gcc-2.96

William Bader william@nscs.fast.net
Thu Oct 5 18:19:00 GMT 2000


> > Would it help to make the text reported by "gcc --version" say
> > something like "prerelease" or "development"?
>
> Nope.  You see, when a company makes a release of gcc, then the words
> prerelease don't apply, so they would have to take them out.  Same
> with development or experimental.

If they do that, in order to comply with the GPL, don't they have to
display an obvious notice that they changed the source and then provide
information about locating the patches?


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