What's the problem of D...,D will be dead?

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
> Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> 
>> Unless you're a commercial compiler writer it should definitely
>> be better for you to use a GPL'ed compiler. Well, at least I
>> don't like potential hidden back door features of closed source
>> compilers.
>>
> 
> If my own creation does not use code of any GPL software
> (eventually compilers) I'm allowed to compile my commercially
> sold, closed source, expensively sold compiler collection with
> it and distribute in this way without violating the GPL. The GPL
> states clearly, that if GPL software is just used as a tool, and
> not as a "blueprint" the results are unaffected of the GPL.
> 

Exactly :) I was just saying that you might feel a bit safer when using
a compiler that is "fully documented", i.e. open source.

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Jari-Matti