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So you are saying that there is nothing stopping linking of the entire GNU compiler source code via Perl, and then the releasing of a closed source code generator?

Here is a mail from joe buck from the GCC mailling list:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1999-01n/msg00706.html

"I'm afraid that's exactly what RMS is extremely worried about:

specifically, that proposed changes make it easier for *proprietary*

tools to use the gcc front ends or back ends."

So GPL/PAL co-linkage allows for the turning over of the entire GPL.

Mike

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In reply to Re: Re: GPL and LGPL linkage to Perl by mdupont
in thread GPL and LGPL linkage to Perl by mdupont

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