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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:00:44PM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> You don't need GCC to run the system, only build it.  Thus you can install a
> system that is ONLY BSD licensed code -- or at least, very close.  I
> personally wouldn't mind if the whole system was GPL, versus BSD (I prefer
> the latter).  However, the currently licensing is BSD and as such, the base
> system (contrib aside) can run with the GPL tools used to build it.
> 
I think its safe to say that gcc isn't going away anytime soon and 
half the gnu tools that go along with it, no matter how much more you 
prefer BSD license.

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David W. Chapman Jr.

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