clipka escreveu:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>> So say again, who chose this interpretation of "derivative work"?
>>>
>>> The software authors? I doubt.
>> They chose it when accepted contributing to a software project born out
>> of the FSF efforts.
> 
> I'm not sure about the history of the GCC code; however, what you say would mean
> that no single line of source code existed to start with before the GCC project
> was launched as a GPL project, and no single line of source code was taken from
> other, truly free software.
> 
> I seriously doubt that this is the case.

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History

Simply googling for "history of gcc" suffices.  After failing to grab a 
proper free compiler, Stallman wrote one from scratch, though adapting a 
C front end from one of the previous compilers.

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