"Tom St Denis" <to********@gmail.comwrites:
Keith Thompson wrote:
>That raises some interesting licensing questions which are, of course,
completely off-topic here.
Followups redirected. If you want to discuss it further, try
gnu.misc.discuss or misc.int-property.
For someone who complains about the nasty and rude behaviours of
others, you certainly are no shining example of maturity.
I'm sorry you don't like the regulars here [which I'm not really one
of] but that's no reason to reply to everything with childish
hostility.
No rudeness or hostility was intended.
I meant exactly what I said: what you wrote upthread:
| Cygnus does offer GCC based compilers [or they used to at least] for
| various 8 and 16-bit platforms which most likely included the 8086 [186
| and 286, etc] but they're not free.
does raise some interesting licensing questions. gcc itself is
covered by the GPL. I'm not sure how a gcc based compiler can be
non-free. I'm *not* saying it can't be, I'm saying I'm not sure how.
I'm also aware of the important distinction between "free as in beer"
and "free as in speech", but I'm no expert in this field. In fact,
I'm curious myself about the details.
Since this has nothing to do with C, I didn't want to start a long
discussion of it here in comp.lang.c. I also didn't want to redirect
the thread either to gnu.misc.discuss or to misc.int-property. By
redirecting followups to /dev/null *and* explicitly mentioning in the
body of my article that followups had been redirected, I intended to
(a) discourage a long off-topic discussion here in comp.lang.c and (b)
encourage anyone interested to discuss the issue in a more appropriate
newsgroup.
I understand that redirecting to /dev/null might seem rude, an
indication that the discussion is of no value; that wasn't my intent
in this case. And of course you managed to override the redirection
yourself.
As for your "I'm sorry you don't like the regulars here", I have no
idea what that's supposed to mean. Perhaps you'e confused me with
someone else.
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