Lies, lies, lies. The GPL does not interfere (much) with commercial rights, it simply has to do with the distribution of software itself, i.e. the code must somehow be available being the bottom line for most of us. Commercial entities are entitles to use this code, modify it, and even use it to develop proprietary products. That's right, M$ could use gcc to compile Windoze!
Agreed. The great thing is the small install ( 15 megs), but under E, I run into serious interface issues, like mouse select going haywire, and occasionally when cutting & pasting from Xemacs, strange garbase is added to my code. Anyone else have these problems?
ACK!!! I can't believe this. All Linux is GNU Linux (strictly speaking), since the code base for the kernel is GPL'd. Different distros just don't always put GNU in the name, but the license is all the same. If I compile for RedHat on an x86, it will work on Debian just fine (if all the libs are there), and the same goes for commercial software. In the case of CodeWarrior, you often have to change the 'access paths' for the compiler. For instance, on my RH 6.0 machine, I have to add/usr/include/bits for some reason, and I have to something else on my Mandrake-Linux 6.0 machine (but I can't rememeber the details). Please, stop spreading the FUD.
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Lies, lies, lies. The GPL does not interfere (much) with commercial rights, it simply has to do with the distribution of software itself, i.e. the code must somehow be available being the bottom line for most of us. Commercial entities are entitles to use this code, modify it, and even use it to develop proprietary products. That's right, M$ could use gcc to compile Windoze!
Agreed. The great thing is the small install ( 15 megs), but under E, I run into serious interface issues, like mouse select going haywire, and occasionally when cutting & pasting from Xemacs, strange garbase is added to my code. Anyone else have these problems?
ACK!!! I can't believe this. All Linux is GNU Linux (strictly speaking), since the code base for the kernel is GPL'd. Different distros just don't always put GNU in the name, but the license is all the same. If I compile for RedHat on an x86, it will work on Debian just fine (if all the libs are there), and the same goes for commercial software. In the case of CodeWarrior, you often have to change the 'access paths' for the compiler. For instance, on my RH 6.0 machine, I have to add /usr/include/bits for some reason, and I have to something else on my Mandrake-Linux 6.0 machine (but I can't rememeber the details). Please, stop spreading the FUD.