Re: New sections to the Standard Pascal website

On 2008-04-26, Scott Moore <samiam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Of course, it is debatable what GPLing a public domain software
> means, since anyone can take the old, public domain version of
> the P4 compiler and do whatever they want with it, without
> regard to the GPL.

Agree fully.

> It seems to me that what you would be effectively doing by
> taking a P4 or P5 compiler, changing it and GPLing that, would
> be that nobody could use your version of the compiler without
> obeying the GPL.

While I totally agree with you that slapping GPL on each and everything is
unnecessary, it is more the recycling of the compiler source than using it
that is limited by the GPL.