On 3/31/11 01:58, "Alain Mouette" <[email protected]> wrote:
>DANGER... DANGER... >I have been silently following this and then it truck me!!! > >Libraries and headers thar generate at least ONE byte cannot be GPL!!! >Some people use compilers to create comercial products, and it that byte >goes along it becomes "derived work" and cannot be protected... That is not true even if FSF would love it to be. One byte cannot be copyrighted. But this is semantics and you are very right here, that is why I advocated putting the headers into the public domain, that would be a service to the mankind. > Please use BSD/MIT (or MPL if you don't want it to be completly free) BSD and MIT will work for me too. > >For the compiler GPL is ok because no byte of the compiler executable >gets *into* the compiled code !!! That is an interesting topic to debate also! Arguably the compiler copies (in the code generator) pieces of code that are arguably part of the compiler executable (in one form or an other) and if those fragments were copyrighted this could spread the infection to the compiled code too.... but I don't think that this would hold in court. Good points Alain! br Kusti ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
