'cc' versus 'gcc'

[Lars P. Fischer]

In article <631 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>  Before using gcc your should read the license. If you compile and link
>using their library you must make the source of your program available
>to the public for three years.

Not so. Read the GNU Public License. Note that 'gnulib.c' (the runtime
system) is *not* copyrighted. If you compile with gcc, and link with
your systems 'ld' (the default) there is no problem.

When the GNU version of libc.a becomes available, all programs linked
with it will have to distributed as GNUware, *if* they are distributed
at all. You can of course still use your own version of libc.a if you
like.

>  gcc is not bug free, but it is about as clean as most commercial
>compilers. It has *deferent* bugs, not *more* bugs.

Actually, it has *fewer* bugs that most commercial compilers.

/Lars
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