From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp and gnu...
Date: 29 Dec 1997 09:58:13 GMT
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Nate Eldredge (eldredge AT ap DOT net) writes:
> At 11:54  12/26/1997 -0600, edgeman wrote:
>>i read through the "legalese" section of the djgpp faq...  it seems to make
>>sense, but what is GNU?
> GNU = "GNU's Not Unix". It's a project which develops free software,
> originated as a reaction to the problems of the proprietary AT&T Unix
> license. Most of DJGPP's tools are ports of GNU programs.

Most? Heck, even DJGPP itself is... the core stuff, compiler, linker,
C and C++ library, all GNU ports.The noly things that aren't GNU, were
written with stuff that is. (I.e., Allegro.)
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