Gora Mohanty <g...@...> writes:

[ about my question about the MIPS binaries, which are distributed generally]

> I doubt that there is any problem there. As per my understanding, it
> is perfectly legal to compile proprietary software using gcc.
> Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection
> See the first paragraph) also seems to say that gcc is used in
> proprietary software development.

Thanks. I just realized the dumbness of my question - I was already well aware
of the answer, I just didn't grep my mind properly or something.

Coders are perfectly free to develop non-GPL code using GPL tools (or using
derived GPL tools that are tweaked-and-not-distributed).

PJ
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