Re: Bug#101318: so what's wrong with freedos exactly?
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:16:56AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> My first though on this particular case was this: compilers, free or
> non-free, are used to compile source code that can be under any license
> of choice by its copyright holder. Users of a compiler do not want
> their choice of compiler to interfere with their choice of a license.
>
> Compiling your code with gcc doesn't make your code or the resulting
> binaries subject to the gpl, does it? (lets troll some bsd ml..)
It doesn't because the gcc library that is automatically linked in is
explicitly not under the GPL but under a do-what-you-want license.
Otherwise the compiled and linked executable would be under GPL.
However I doubt there is a) source code available for the Borland
compiler library and b) that it is under a GPL compatible license.
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