Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception"

[John Hasler]

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.
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John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA