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Re: Ada & JGNAT
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:22:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: Ada & JGNAT
- References: <10407071157.AA02953@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner writes:
> A worry has always been that you could write a proprietary compiler
> and use gcc's back end. You could do this without violating the GPL
> by making the two passes of the compiler separate programs. The first
> proprietary part would output some kind of intermediate form, the
> second part would read that and generate code.
>
> "without violating the GPL" is much too strong. If you write one
> program whose output can only be processed by a second program,
> it's not at all clear whether or not the combination of the two
> programs would be covered by the copyright on both.
I accept that correction.
Thanks,
Andrew.