Nate Duehr said:

> That is horrible - and not funny at all.  Please let the GNU folks know
> as soon as you can since you've actually seen this personally, so they
> can contact Mchip.  Both the "GNU-based" comments and the obvious
> confusion about the documentation licensing show that there's something
> else (probably very inappropriate) afoot at Mchip.
>

There's nothing wrong with them charging for it. Also, if the compiler
stays unmodified and source is included, they can have their closed-source
tools call the compiler.

Chances are they'll have to add something to the compiler, and they should
include the source, so that's nice, isn't it?

Cheers,

Bob

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