IANAL.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:16:06PM -0600, Walter Landry wrote:
> This implies that the compiler is considered to be a major part of the
> operating system, whether it really is or not. The question is then,
> which compiler? I would submit that any compiler will do. The
> license doesn't specify how you build up an "operating system", and
> there are a multitude of ways to do it.
Which is why the GPL leaves it up to the particular operating system in
question. Note again: "the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed... with the major components... of
the operating system *on which the executable runs*." (Emphasis mine, of
course.) As a compiler is not typically distributed with Windows, no
compiler -- be it Borland, or gcc, or whatever -- falls under this
exception for Windows programs.
That's how I see it, anyway.
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