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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Tethys muttered drunkenly:
> 
> Mike Brodbelt writes:
> 
>>I knew the Objective C support caem from Apple/NeXT originally
> 
> Albeit grudgingly, IIRC.

What I heard was that Stan Shebs (the original author of that frontend)
knew the GPL's requirements perfectly well, but NeXT's lawyers slapped a
mindless-proprietary-we-own-this sticker on it nonetheless and refused
to let it go out with source.

Faced with one of RMS's letters, the original author of the code was
able to convince said lawyers to respect the GPL.

>                          I believe they've been somewhat more
> forthcoming in recent years though.

Yes, they've been, er, `re-educated'. ;)

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