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Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?


On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Edward Jason Riedy wrote:

> http://www.tera.com/tech/index.html.  The use of separate executables 
> trumps the GPL for a strict definition of derived work.

   I have my doubts about that, though I have often seen RMS refered to as
stating this as a position the FSF.  There is no hard and fast technical
rule that will determine this.  What you have to ask yourself is if the
expression of software B derivative of the expression of software A (I
tend to think of it as "if software A did not exist, would parts of the
expression of software B become meaningless?")

Lynn



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