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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Subject: Re: GCC for DOS
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Date: 16 Apr 91 09:10:50
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In article <28044@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:

   Howdy folks.  I have heard that there is a GCC port for DOS/386.  If
   possible, could someone tell me or send me a spec sheet of what it can and
   can't do?  License agreements?  Etc?

It's grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:pub/msdos/djgcc/*.  Grape is also at (315)268-6667.

   One other thing on a related noted.  Could someone please explain
   "CopyLeft" since if I interpret from what friends have said, I can't even
   make a living writing software using it!  How do you survive if you can't
   charge for software?

Well, the principle behind the copyleft is that if you got it for free, you've
got no right to charge other people for it.  How do you survive?  You charge
people for the support.  Since people don't want to pay for support (usually),
you bundle it with the compiler.

--
--russ <nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker.
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson
I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.
