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Re: More questions about the QPL for compilers and other things



Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>:

> I see compilers -- and not just LISP compilers -- all the time, which
> claim to control how their output may be used.  The intel compiler,
> for example, has an expensive license if you wish to build products
> for commercial sale.  Metrowerks Codewarrior used to be under a
> similar license; I assume it still is.

If that's done by means of a contract then it's not relevant to the
question of whether there is copyrightable material in the compiler
output. A contract can make all sorts of restrictions that have
nothing to do with copyright law.



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