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Plugging into GCC

Posted Oct 3, 2008 21:42 UTC (Fri) by palapa (subscriber, #612)
In reply to: Plugging into GCC by Jonno
Parent article: Plugging into GCC

Couldn't the compiler require the plugin to be linked to a GPL'd library? For the API, for instance. That would make the plugin a derived work and force it to be GPL licensed.

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Any such library can be reimplemented

Posted Oct 4, 2008 7:11 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

...and published under Apache2 license. Of course then the question will be raised is the said library is derived work of original library or not - but that's very gray area and court cases can go on for years...