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Re: Meta-Level Compilation project / Introspector/ AST access / Licensing question
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: drow at mvista dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 02 18:41:15 EDT
- Subject: Re: Meta-Level Compilation project / Introspector/ AST access / Licensing question
Well, only sort of oversimplifying. No one has ever presented a reason
that distributing a patch which causes GCC to dump its AST in any
format (or distributing a patched GCC and source!) in any way violates
the copyright.
Correct. It's the *use* of such a file by a proprietary program that raises
the interesting copyright issue.