Using of parse tree externally

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 12, 2000, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:

> There's also obviously the simple legal issue: if somebody actually
> wants to fork gcc, and create a gcc that prints out the parse tree
> externally, the FSF simply doesn't have any legal power to stop them. 

Isn't there any way the GCC license could be written so as to make any
such output a derived work, thereby requiring other programs that use
it to be GPLed too?  I see it might be hard to draw a line separating
the assembly output generated by GCC, that shouldn't be covered by
this restriction, from such unwanted uses, but that might be a way to
legally forbid any such unwanted uses of GCC.  But then, IANAL :-)

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