13 Aug
2003
13 Aug
'03
11:21 a.m.
Ian Bell ian@redtommo.com writes:
In fact the licence position with the GNU-C for C166 is that the parts defined by Hightec to allow C166 code generation are proprietary and therefore are chargeable.
[...]
Programmers are not obliged to put into the public domain new components they have developed for GNU compilers. It is only changes to the core of the compiler that must be made public and lodged with GNU. Thus Hightec's C166 code generator and front-end processor are chargeable. Therefore people using the Hightec GNU-C without a Hightec licence are not strictly legal.
I think they are confused. They should probably contact the FSF with a coherent description of what they are doing (the quoted article rather fails to make it clear).