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.

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