Re: GPL issues

From: Olivier Galibert
Date: Wed Apr 12 2006 - 07:33:58 EST


On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:13:17AM +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> A program emerges that uses that syscall? You don't like that ?
> Equally tough. It doesn't matter if I wrote both parts or just one,
> we're not looking at INTENT here. Either programs can be non-GPL
> or they can't.

Intent is clearly taken into account by courts. And in any case check
the history of the objective C frontend in gcc.

OG.
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