Re: Dumping RTL???

[kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)]

    Same thing with the ideas part. Ideas are specifically *not*
    protected).  As long as one can clearly delineate interfaces as the
    idea, and the implementation as the expression, the interface is not
    protectible.

Well, let's just say *less* protectable.  But that's exactly the point:
if we raise it to the level of an "interface", we lessen it's protection.
As long as it's simply a dump of internal data structures, it's much more
highly protectable.

    I don't think you mean "we" (I slip sometimes too in gcc talk), since 
    the FSF owns the copyright. :)

I mean "we" as developers for the FSF, but technically you're right, I
mean the FSF itself.