Re: plugins vs. licensing

2008-09-30 Thread Joern Rennecke
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 06:23:13PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote: > Joe Buck wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:54:26PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote: > >>Couldn't the plugin interface require a copyrighted passphrase to be > >>sent by the plugin when it registeres, and the passphrase can then > >>be l

Re: plugins vs. licensing

2008-09-29 Thread Robert Dewar
Joe Buck wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:54:26PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote: Couldn't the plugin interface require a copyrighted passphrase to be sent by the plugin when it registeres, and the passphrase can then be licensed under the GPL. Please, let's stop this. Actually the above is a

Re: plugins vs. licensing

2008-09-29 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:54:26PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote: > Couldn't the plugin interface require a copyrighted passphrase to be > sent by the plugin when it registeres, and the passphrase can then > be licensed under the GPL. Please, let's stop this.

Re: plugins vs. licensing

2008-09-29 Thread Robert Dewar
Joern Rennecke wrote: Couldn't the plugin interface require a copyrighted passphrase to be sent by the plugin when it registeres, and the passphrase can then be licensed under the GPL. Thus, plugins that want to interface with an official FSF gcc will have to be GPLed in order to talk to the plu