Darren New escreveu:
> Or am I missing something here?

You said:
"For one: I can hire you to write a plug-in for me, never distribute the 
plug-in, but distribute executable code produced by the plug-in."

That's perfectly acceptable.

"I can't, however, find that you've already anticipated my need, created 
a proprietary plug-in, buy it from you"

That's not, because they are enforcing the GPL, rightfully or not.

So, your replies don't quite follow:

 > It doesn't have to be. I can just make it GPL and never give out the
 > code. Just like my own changes.

You don't even have to make your changes GPL'd for a GPL program if you 
don't redistribute.

 > If you sell it to me, you can't stop me from distributing the plug-in
 > without stopping me from distributing the final code.

Sell the proprietary plugin as in sell a copy or sell you the copyright 
and code?

 > If I hire you, I
 > can distribute the resultant code without distributing the plug-in
 > needed to create it. :-)

Thing I don't quite get is:  are you talking about the resultant code 
from the gcc+plugin setup?  What is the difference from any code 
generated from gcc?  You can license it anyway you like, no GPL needed.

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