At 11:27 AM +0000 on 10/19/99, Mark Rauterkus wrote:
>But, I think it would be something more to explore the idea that a all
>products made from the tool that is of a GNU item are in-fact FREE too. I
>think not. Case in point: GNU has a "C" compiler application. One can write
>a commercial software title with the GNU "C" tool, and not have the software
>title be GNUed. But, if one changes the "C" software tool, that is not
>allowed without some strings. So, you can make a widget that crafted with
>FREE tools and have the widget be "closed" and "NON-FREE."
There is a special exception for compilers and the like in the GPL --
because none of the actual compiler source gets into the output.
But in OpenCard, the entire engine does. We'd need a special exception,
like GNU Bison.
