55.14 Copyright of GAP for TOS

In addition to the general copyright for GAP set forth in the copyright the following terms apply to the executable of GAP for TOS.

GAP for TOS was compiled with J. Bammi's port of the Free Software Foundation's GNU C compiler version 2.5. The compiler is available by anonymous ftp from the ftp server atari.archive.umich.edu where it is found in the directory atari/Gnustuff/Tos. Many thanks to the Free Software Foundation and J. Bammi for this amazing piece of work.

The GNU C compiler is

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Note that the GNU GPL states that the mere act of compiling does not affect the copyright status of GAP.

The executable is linked with the GNU library gnu.obl, which is

Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). The terms of the LGPL require that we make the source code for the gnu.olb available. They can be obtained by writing to Martin Schoenert (however, it may be easier for you to ftp them from atari.archive.umich.edu yourself). They also require that we make GAP available in a form that allows you to modify it, which we basically to anyhow.

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