> I think you may need to enforce it once or twice to have teeth but it’s not unheard of. That's assuming the courts agree. I haven't read the linker code, but

> I think you may need to enforce it once or twice to have teeth but it’s not unheard of. That's assuming the courts agree. I haven't read the linker code, but it's very possible that whatever code the linker includes would not be found "creative" enough to be copyrightable. In contrast, libgcc, which gcc links into generated binaries, contains non-trivial routines[0]. [0] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/libgcc2.c https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/libgcc2...