Except it wasn't Apple.<p>NeXT wasn't Apple. It particularly wasn't Apple in 1989.<p>And it came into compliance, then contributed to gcc.<p>That makes the headline bogus. Fishing for page views?
Is that really a violation? The made small modifications to gcc, they were asked for the source code to those modifications, they gave the source code to those who requested it. Isn't that what the GPL says? You have to make the source code available?