Dave Love (d.love at dl.ac.uk) wrote:
: >>>> On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:42:59 GMT, aimania at airmail.net (Walter Rothe) said:
: Walter> bernard at elsie.nci.nih.gov (Bernard Murray) wrote:
: >> In article <4ivauu$oda at news-f.iadfw.net>, aimania at airmail.net says...
: >>>
: >>> mangalam at uci.edu (Harry Mangalam) wrote:
: >>>
: >>>> (altho, some would say that GNU is better than commercial quality :)
: Indeed. Gcc is, anyway, a commercial product.
It is not. As a matter of fact, the GNU public license under which the GCC
compiler is distributed expressly prohibits the sale of GCC (I believe that
the license permits distributors to charge $3.00 above the actual media cost
as a copying fee).