More details: > In order to circumvent the terms of the GPL, NeXT had originally intended to ship the Objective-C frontend separately, allowing the user to lin

More details: > In order to circumvent the terms of the GPL, NeXT had originally intended to ship the Objective-C frontend separately, allowing the user to link it with GCC to produce the compiler executable. After being initially accepted by Richard M. Stallman, this plan was rejected after Stallman consulted with GNU's lawyers and NeXT agreed to make Objective-C part of GCC. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#Popularization_through_NeXT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#Popularization_thr...