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Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- To: Justin Guyett <jfg at sonicity dot com>, Michael Eager <eager at mvista dot com>
- Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:44:50 -0700
- cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
--On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 07:26:41 PM -0700 Justin Guyett
<jfg@sonicity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Michael Eager wrote:
>
>> Unless I'm reading the GPL incorrectly, this does not violate the GPL.
Gentlemen --
We have this debate every few months, and I'm bored. :-)
Unfortunately, none of us are lawyers, and few of us are even copyright
experts, so we can't really be sure. It would be nice if the FSF would
take an official position, so that we could at least point to what the
intent of the GPL is in this respect, even if we couldn't be sure of
it's actual meaning. (You can never be sure until you go to court.)
Would one of you care to contact the FSF about this issue directly?
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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