Nicolas Alvarez escreveu:
> I'm not against GPL (I contribute to a LGPL project regularly and my own
> projects are GPL when and if they get out of my computer). I'm against
> DRM-like measures in GNU software.

Those "DRM-like measures" don't take away the freedoms of anyone anymore 
than current GPL:  people wanting it for proprietary projects without 
source code sharing are still out, as they've always been.

These plugins for GCC are not like plugins for Firefox.  Despite both in 
a sense providing extended functionality for the open-source projects, a 
Flash player depends entirely on Flash content on the web, not on 
specific Firefox resources, while a plugin for gcc would be eager to use 
data, structures and functions provided by the core compiler.  It's 
really just code that should be in the compiler that was outsourced, so 
it must be GPL too.

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