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cozzyd
on Feb 9, 2015
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I was thinking the same thing. Change the GCC license to preclude such use by introducing a variant of the GPL for compilers and similar tools.
jeremysalwen
on Feb 9, 2015
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Linked from the original article is another piece by the author describing precisely such a license:
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/01/27/gcc-exception.html
. I'm rather surprised I haven't heard of this before.
belorn
on Feb 10, 2015
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Likely because it would be incompatible with GPL. Switching GCC's license to a GPL incompatible license is not a move I think FSF are willing to do.
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