I'm fairly certain that egcs (the GPL gcc included) does not require you to
hand out your source...only source to CHANGES you've made to egcs. While I'm
thinking about it, Debian includes egcs, and if its in Debian, its most
certainly free as in beer. Read the README that comes with it; it'll say for
sure. Might also be worth your time to read the GPL if you're truly
concerned.
Also, this is a perfectly valid thing to ask the compiler developers.
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language
Thanks for the reply.
Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later
when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig
language, the original author of the programming language impose royalty or
license fee.
I have bought a commercial development kit last time where i end only using
0.1% of its capability. I'm not a good programmer. Looking at it I don't
want to chunk out huge some of money to invest in a commercial language that
i won't fully utilise. And certainly I don't want to fall into the trap of
"free license" and i don't mean GPL here. I remember coming across a "free
license" agreement that is really NOT free at all.
have a nice day fellow linuxians :)
Joe
RLU# 186063
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Stark - eSN
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language
>
>
> He's right. Anything YOU create in C (or C++ or Perl or whatever)
> belongs to
> YOU, regardless of who wrote the compiler/interpreter. Understand, though,
> that any libraries you dynamically link to (or perl modules) of course
> aren't your own, and may fall under some other license. Just because you
> develop with OSS doesn't mean that you have to produce OSS. I take it you
> want to create something to be sold?
>
> For a scripting style language (quick prototyping and useful in cgi), I
> recommend perl. There are others, but none with perl's flexibility. There
> are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh?
>
> For programming, take your pick, but Mandrake comes with gcc,
> which is thier
> ANSI compliant C compiler. If you use that, all your C or C++
> (use gcc++ for
> that) programming books from school will be worth something.
>
> Derek Stark
> IT / Linux Admin
> eSupportNow
> xt 8952
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language
>
>
> On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote:
> > Hi Linuxians,
> >
> > I need a list of free programming language and scripting language
> available
> > for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free
> > license.
>
> Huh?
>
> If you mean GPL, it is there to prevent ugly little comedies like theft of
> someone's college homework program making a commercial killing significant
> enough to produce some of the world's richest folks. Perl has
> two licenses
> and you may use either.
>
> The only restriction on the free license is that if you modify/distribute
> the
> software you obtained under the license, you have to pass on the
> freedoms to
> use, modify, distribute and distribute modified versions to those you
> distribute to as well.
>
> If you did a development install of GNU/LM, you have many of the languages
> on
> your machine. Others are available by searching www.freshmeat.net,
> www.google.com, and www.sourceforge.com. In addition, you might
> want to try
> searching
>
> "computer operating systems"
>
> because there are other experimental systems out there--lots of them, that
> often have pet languages. Many of those systems and languages are totally
> free--uncopyrighted and ready to be exploited, free as in beer, not as in
> speech.
>
> Civileme
>
> >
> > If anybody have it, can you pass me the list together with
> where to obtain
> > them.
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance.
> >
> > Joe
> > RLU #186063
>
>
