Hyman Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rjack wrote: >> My third party compiler is none of their damn business. > > The GPL attempts to insure that users of a program can > run, read, change, and share it. In order for a user to > be able to make changes and run the resulting program, > he must be given the source and told how to build it > from source. (It could have required that the compiler > be made available as well, but I expect the FSF felt > that there were too many systems where non-free compilers > must be used for this to be tenable.)
It is an independent work. You get into inappropriate conditions very fast that road, since the compiler has dependencies of its own. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
