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Re: lcc-win32 and GNU


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: lcc-win32 and GNU
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:19:32 +0200
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jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:

> In this forum, there was a thread that mentioned that GNU code is
> being used by lcc-win32.
>
> This should be a violation of the GNU license. We did not know this,
> and thought that just distributing the code would
> be enough.
>
> Therefore:
>
> 1: gdbm distribution is dropped from the lcc-win32 distribution
> 2: The function "edit_distance" is dropped from the library
> 3: The linux version of lcc-win32 is discontinued. We are trying to
>    evaluate how much effort will be to replace the bfd library
>    and use our own object file writing... Until then, no linux
>    version will be available.
> 4: The parts of lcc-win32 that called the gnu program "indent"
>    (that itself is derived from earlier code) have been deleted.
>    indent will no longer be distributed.

You have my respect for sticking to your guns.  And my bewilderment
for those guns in the first place...

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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