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Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception"


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception"
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:10:58 -0500
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Note that the copyright of executable files is invariably held to be held
by those who have copyright of the source files, not those who wrote the
compiler.

An interesting aside is that the source and executable forms of a
computer program do not have separate copyrights. They are considered
to be the same work for copyright purposes.


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