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Re: Dumping RTL???
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: Svein dot Seldal at solidas dot com, aph at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gyana_m at hotmail dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 00:18:06 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Dumping RTL???
> Hmm... gcc is open source... A company like this could ""simply"" alter
> gcc to produce complete RTL output and then use their unfree backend
> anyways? Given that they release the gcc-patch-source, am I right? Or is
> this sceanrio merely academic?
In fact nobody knows whether this would be legitimate. It has not been
litigated, and we would just as soon prefer that things stay that way.