Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?

I'm sorry, I don't understand how Apple can include gcc in a package with
restrictive license conditions that would apply to software that is
compiled with gcc? Something sounds wrong here, especially since any
proprietary libraries would be *dynamically linked* on the target systems
rather than actually included in the distribution.

Edmund

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On 12 November 2012 11:03, edmund ronald <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What is the legal status of this:
> > http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html
>
> It's like the 4th time that comes up. Did you read all of that? What
> happened is that the guy ripped out some parts of Xcode that he didn't
> want and made his own distribution, under dubious legal status. Then
> Apple came along, saw this, and created a trimmed-down version of
> Xcode called "Xcode command line tools" that is almost the same as
> whaht Kenneth Reitz is distributing, plus the extra non-free things
> that Kenneth was trying to distribute.
>
> Also note that this isn't even "open source" as he claims at the
> bottom of that blog post, because open source also means free
> distribution, which this doesn't have.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
>

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