Re: To dispell rumors

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From: Matt Wette
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 1990 14:10

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A recently posted article which stated that output from gcc is protected
under the Copyleft.  I'm not sure this is quite correct.  Consider the
following except from emacs/etc/INTERVIEW:

BYTE: Do you obtain any rights over the executable code derived from the C
compiler?

Stallman: The copyright law doesn't give me copyright on output from the
compiler, so it doesn't give me a way to say anything about that, and in
fact I don't try to.  I don't sympathize with people developing proprietary
products with any compiler, but it doesn't seem especially useful to try to
stop them from developing them with this compiler, so I am not going to.

Matt
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From: mwette@hot.Caltech.Edu (Matt Wette)
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Subject: Re: To dispell rumors
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