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Re: XML dumping and GraphViz/VCG in the GCC ast-optimizer-branch
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gnu dot org, mdupont777 at yahoo dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:34:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: XML dumping and GraphViz/VCG in the GCC ast-optimizer-branch
<<I am not planning in any way to create non-free software, just pointing
out that the .dot files are a file format that is read by the non-free
software GraphViz. It strikes me funny that the gcc would explicitly
support a non-free software, and serve it files.
>>
This is confused, it is not at all correct to say that gcc is "explicitly
supporting a non-free software and serving it files". If gcc is used int
this way, it might well be a copyright violation. And the only way to
determine this would be through litigation. Certainly there is no policy
statement that says that this is permissible.