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Re: Meta-Level Compilation project / Introspector/ AST access / Licensing question
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 02 18:45:28 EDT
- Subject: Re: Meta-Level Compilation project / Introspector/ AST access / Licensing question
I should have been more careful when I wrote "Correct." Should GCC accept
patches to provide a standard interface that reads and writes compiler
internals in XML format, with documentation, then it would be hard to
argue that all readers and writers of the format would need to use GPL
licensing, because use by external programs would be *intentional*.
This is perhaps the most succint description of why accepting such patches
would be bad that I have ever seen!