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I was thinking the same thing. Change the GCC license to preclude such use by introducing a variant of the GPL for compilers and similar tools.
by cozzyd 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Change the GCC license to preclude such use by introducing a variant of the GPL for compilers and similar tools.
- jeremysalwen 12y agoLinked from the original article is another piece by the author describing precisely such a license: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/01/27/gcc-exception.html http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/01/27/gcc-exception.html . I'm rather surprised I haven't heard of this before.
- belorn 12y agoLikely because it would be incompatible with GPL. Switching GCC's license to a GPL incompatible license is not a move I think FSF are willing to do.