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Re: Meta-Level Compilation project / Introspector/ AST access / Licensing question
- From: James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 at yahoo dot com>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>, drow at mvista dot com, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mdupont777 at yahoo dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:29:14 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Meta-Level Compilation project / Introspector/ AST access / Licensing question
You guys know then about the cppx project from
waterloo that dumps the gcc files in a standard format
GXL for usage by a non-free tool swagkit?
You have other people on this list who are planning on
doing similar things.
They say that the swagkit existed before the cppx and
therefore even if they have to distribute a patched
gcc
to run, it is not needed to GPL it.
--- Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> <<If there is a good reason and no one has bothered
> to say it, than I
> apologize for not being able to see it myself.
> >>
>
> You miss the point, of course there is no license
> violation in adding code
> to GCC to dump anything in any format you want.
>
> The issue is whether a proprietary program designed
> to read this file (and
> able to operate only in the presense of this file)
> is or is not "mere
> aggregation". I would think not, but there are
> arguments on both sides
> and this is something that would have to be argued
> in a court of law.
>
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James Michael DuPont
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