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Intermediate outputs

Authored by: The Cornishman on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 03:36 PM EDT

If there's useful information in the internals of the compiler, you are Free to
instrument it and output that information any way you like. You can do that
without offering the source code modifications to the world, if you are content
not to distribute your modified version. Even if rms didn't care for your
modification on political grounds [1], and didn't accept your changes into the
trunk, you're still able to fork GCC.

[1] I'd like to understand how intermediate results of compilation might offend
Mr Stallman's sensibilities, though, if you have a moment to explain..

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Intermediate outputs - Authored by: pem on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 05:42 PM EDT

Sure, but you can go a bit too far

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 01:11 AM EDT

The license is politically driven -- OK.

I'd say it was economically driven. Your payment for using my code is you must publish your modifications to my code.

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That's not purely economic - Authored by: pem on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 09:48 PM EDT

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