Official compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 22:22:57 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> With copyright, the fact that you created yours on your own is 
> sufficient defense, assuming the courts agree. If by sheer 
> coincidence you come up with code identical to what's in GCC, 
> but you can show that you didn't take the code from GCC, you're 
> in the clear.

And how are you going to show that? You can't, because it is 
widespread.

> Patents, well, you're infringing even if you didn't refer to 
> any other source. But if you did look at another source, 
> especially if you looked in the patent database, you open 
> yourself up to increased damages.

There are no damages for GCC.