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This means that you couldn't use *GCC* if you did something the FSF found objectionable, closing an easy work-around.
This doesn't work, because it breaks out of the basic framework of
copyright law. Nobody signs anything or accepts any terms in order to
use gcc. The FSF wants to stop people from distributing proprietary
binary plugins to gcc. The copyright on gcc does not apply to those
plugins.
Also, even if you could develop a license similar to the GPL but with an
additional restriction to this end, this would not be the GPL anymore,
because GPLv3 limits the "non-permissive additional terms" to the ones
listed in Section 7:
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