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GCC unpluggedGCC unpluggedPosted Nov 21, 2007 7:25 UTC (Wed) by sylware (subscriber, #35259)In reply to: GCC unplugged by njs Parent article: GCC unplugged
Well, to remove any ambiguity, instead of considering plugins "derivative work", the GPL would then be extended to barely forbid proprietary plugins. Namely any plugins would be subject to this extended GPL.
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GCC unplugged Posted Nov 28, 2007 16:53 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] The problem is that if I write a plugin for GCC, using the published interface to do so, my plugin is mine and mine alone, to do as I wish, unless it contains GCC-derived code (or thereabouts, it is not that clearcut). So I can happily distribute it as closed source for a heavy price, all legally. Trying to place the use of the interface under strict conditions won't work either, as the idea of a interface is to make such connections possible; and besides as a user of the interface I'm not copying anything anyway, so no copyright interferes.
GCC unplugged Posted Nov 29, 2007 16:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] It's kind of hard to write anything like a useful plugin right now without using a whole pile of macros defined in GPL-without-exception header files.
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