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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
David Edelsohn wrote:
Dave Korn writes:
Dave> I don't understand: why wouldn't designing it so that they have to be
Dave> implemented as DSOs and hence are covered by the
Dave> anything-directly-linked-in-is-GPL'd clause do the job? Or is the concern
Dave> that people will write trivial marshalling plugins and ship all the data out
Dave> across a pipe or socket to some proprietary code and then only release source
Dave> for their shim layers?
The concern is the many forms of shim layers that possibly could
be written more easily with a plug-in framework.
there is also a difference in these two scenarios:
1. a) Company X writes a modification to GCC to generate special
intermediate stuff with format Y.
b) Company X writes propietary back end which can only
read format Y stuff written by that modification.
2. Same as 1, except that the GCC project does step a)
thus semi-standardizing the output.
TO me it is pretty clear that these are very different
situations from a license point of view.
David