Linux 1, MacOS 0 (illegal gcc download for minors)

[Aaron Vegh]

Relax. The XCode tools are included on the system disk that came with  
your new MacBook. No need to go online and give up your personal info.  
Just pop in the disk and run the installer.

Cheers,
Aaron.

On 6-Mar-09, at 4:15 AM, Marc Lanctot wrote:

> 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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