John Hasler <j...@dhh.gt.org> wrote: > 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. OK, got you! These other compiler vendors have, presumably, long since ceased to exist. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
