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

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org> writes:

> 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.

These are/were free downloads, protected by pre-UCITA clickthrough
licenses at most, and some with redistribution permitted.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu