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Re: Microchip GNU-CC PIC port - script licencing question..

* Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> [060405 16:19]:
>   However if Microchip have written their own entirely new linker scripts,
> they hold the copyright and may license them however they please.

Unless they are used to compile the derivative of gcc. If they are they are
most likely "scripts used to control compilation and installation of the
executable" and thus need to be available under GPL-compatible terms.

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link
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