You would not want a lawyer designing a compiler, so why...
Honestly, this is not helping. This is a technological forum and this
is not a technological issue but a legal one. So, even if you knew a
lawyer who wishes to help and work with the FSF to address the legal
issue, this is not the right mailing list. You/he/she should contact
the FSF and the SFLC instead.
Thanks,
Manuel.
2008/9/29 Joern Rennecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> To give it a bit more legal bite with respect to ruling out accidental
> infringement, I suppose the passphrase could include a statement that
> assures that the sending program is licensed under the GPL.
>
> Another thing is that if it is considered possible that the passphrase
> an be distributed as a separate entity and merely aggregated with the plugin,
> it could be licensed under a more stringent license than the GPL which
> is more effective at attaining the goal of requiring GPLed plugins.
> The plugin interface could compute a cryptographic hash which the license
> can then allow to be licensed under the GPL so it can be included into
> cc1 binary.
>
