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Re: Using of parse tree externally
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: Using of parse tree externally
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 12 Oct 2000 17:31:14 -0200
- Cc: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200010121919.MAA01165@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Oct 12, 2000, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> There's also obviously the simple legal issue: if somebody actually
> wants to fork gcc, and create a gcc that prints out the parse tree
> externally, the FSF simply doesn't have any legal power to stop them.
Isn't there any way the GCC license could be written so as to make any
such output a derived work, thereby requiring other programs that use
it to be GPLed too? I see it might be hard to draw a line separating
the assembly output generated by GCC, that shouldn't be covered by
this restriction, from such unwanted uses, but that might be a way to
legally forbid any such unwanted uses of GCC. But then, IANAL :-)
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