Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I see compilers -- and not just LISP compilers -- all the time, which >> claim to control how their output may be used. The intel compiler, >> for example, has an expensive license if you wish to build products >> for commercial sale. Metrowerks Codewarrior used to be under a >> similar license; I assume it still is. > > If that's done by means of a contract then it's not relevant to the > question of whether there is copyrightable material in the compiler > output. A contract can make all sorts of restrictions that have > nothing to do with copyright law.
These are/were free downloads, protected by pre-UCITA clickthrough licenses at most, and some with redistribution permitted. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
