Linux 1, MacOS 0 (illegal gcc download for minors)
Marc Lanctot
lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 6 09:15:38 UTC 2009
I just bought my macbook I'd talked about before and just went through a
striking experience that I figure you may all appreciate. Sorry in
advance if this is already well-known, but it's news to me.
Darwinports is FreeBSD's ports for Mac (think portage on emerge), so it
needs gcc to build things you download. I was surprised -- not outright
shocked because I didn't expect it to be developer-friendly -- not to
find gcc installed already. So, I tried fink, it gave me a weird error
when trying to install gcc42, something about dependencies with
unrestricted packages then I told it to install gcc-4.0 which told me to
go download xcode to get gcc. Some googling also pointed me to xcode to
get gcc. Even the gcc download page doesn't have binaries for MacOS.
To download xcode you need to register an account the the Apple
Developer Connection. No free compiling for me unless I OK it with
Apple. It's a conspiracy.. but, I said, fine, in my attempt to become a
Mac user I'll suck up and give in to this. It's part of the experience,
right? So getting this account just to get xcode has your home address
as a required field. So now, using gcc on my Mac means Apple has to be
able to track me down to my home. In case I'm hand-crafting viruses or
something? Ok, so whatever, at this point it's a bit much but I comply
anyway.
At the end of the account creation process, part of the agreement says
"I confirm that I'm 18 years of age or older." Luckily I am, but this
put me over. If I was 16 years old making some hard-earned money, went
out and bought a Mac .. it would not be legal for me to run gcc on it.
Actually, it would be as long as my parents or older siblings downloaded
it for me.
Does anybody know of a way around this, or is it really illegal to
download xcode on MacOS if you're under 18?
(Note: some sites says it comes on the CD with your MacOS disks but I
got no such disks... but as long as these disks are provided for free
then it should be OK...)
I'm steps closer to dual-booting this thing with Linux.....
Marc
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