On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:03 +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > Khalid Aziz wrote: > > So the generated code not only automatically gets placed under GPL, it > > also gets its copyright assigned to someone else.
> I don't know this tool at all. Does it only transform your input > into code, or is some code written by this Robert van Engelen also > inserted? For example, startup code or some standard library? This tool generates C code from XML file. So in a way, this tool is generating all of the code in its output which can be considered to have been written by Robert van Engelen since he wrote the tool. > This is indeed similar to gcc, which adds code from libgcc (or > libstdc++) to your program. But gcc has an exception that permits > you to use whatever license you want to the output. > http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/SharedLibgccLegal This refers to linking one's final binary with gcc libraries and the startup code. If one were to use gcc to generate assembly code from C code without linking it with libgcc or libstdc++, gcc does not require the resulting assembly language code to be licensed under GPL. -- Khalid ======================= [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
