Add GPL compatibility check for plugins
Rafael Espindola
espindola@google.com
Fri Jun 19 09:56:00 GMT 2009
> Note that it's just the technical implementation that I disagree with. If
> the FSF wants an error, fine. But the bare acceptable minimum is to say
> "this copy of GCC won't run plugins that are not licensed under a
> GPL-compatible license", so that it's clear that it's legal to run
> non-GPL-compatible licenses; plus, make it a sorry rather than a
> fatal_error. And to me, the ideal solution would be to add
> -fnon-gpl-plugins that would suppress the sorry and add a note to the output
> file saying "this file was compiled with a non-free plugin, so it is legally
> under the GPL".
Only if linked with the runtime libraries, right?
> Paolo
>
Cheers,
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