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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
On Nov 7, 2007, Brendon Costa <bcosta@avdat.com.au> wrote:
> If the license extends to the data generated by GPL apps
It doesn't, AFAIK, but IANAL. But the issue is not so much the
specific data, but the format in which the data is and the reasons
behind choosing that format.
The FSF might successfully present to a court an argument such as:
Look, Your Honor, it is quite obvious that the code in question was
developed to work as a single program, and that the separation
through the intermedia representation layer is just an attempt to
escape the conditions of the license of the program they based their
work on. Please don't permit the defendant to keep on distributing
that code without complying with the license conditions.
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