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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: GPL code in freebsd?
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 05:08:27 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199506161904.FAA31772@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 17, 95 05:04:31 am
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> >And we don't distribute that in binary form so we are not in violation
> >of the GPL for that piece of code!

> We do distribute gcc in binary form and there is apparently no problem with
> that.

It's not in the kernel, it's a separate completely standalone program.