DMD back end dev-kit

[BCS]

Reply to Bill,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> We could do it in reverse; compile the GCC backend as a lib, and ship
>> that and the minimal headers to Walter and then he could develop DMD
>> with that without ever seeing a line of (executable) GCC code. He
>> might even be able to build and ship both GCC and DMC versions of
>> DMD.
>> 
> But GCC is GPL so merely linking against it automatically taints the
> code.  Or is the current front end license GPL compatible?
> 
> --bb
> 

even so, wouldn't a .so/.dll get around that?