Raul Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:21:53AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> > I was not proposing "make gcc work on that OS", I was proposing >> > functional modifications to GCC to make it integrate better with that >> > environment. >> >> There is nothing in the GPL that forbids functional modifications to >> GCC to make it integrate better with the environment. > > Treat palladium as a meta-syntactic variable standing for an environment > where reverse engineering is illegal and where proprietary code and > proprietary features are present. Treat "integrate better" as something > which specifically requires those proprietary features.
If you use them according to the free interface, then you have a "contrib" program. If you use the proprietary code, then you've created something non-free regardless of the GPL. What's your point? -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
