Alan Mackenzie writes: > You're saying, I think, that this "boilerplate" code gives the > boilerplate's writer some degree of copyright in the executable program. > I'm not at all convinced o this. Certainly, the world doesn't seem to > work this way in practice, in that if I write some code for a proprietary > OS, and build it with proprietary tools, the tool vendors don't sue me > for royalties.
They grant you a license. There once were compiler vendors who claimed that you owed them a royalty for every copy of a program compiled with their compilers. -- John Hasler j...@dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
