[License-discuss] Total Reciprocity Public License (TRPL v1.0)

[McCoy Smith]

On 12/3/2025 1:56 PM, Pamela Chestek wrote:
>
> But that seems orthogonal to your point. Your hypo seems to be that 
> the compiler is under this license ("infringes the copyright of the 
> compiler") and the question is about the relationship of the output to 
> the compiler. You dismiss the possibility that some copyrightable 
> portions of the compiler end up in the compiled code, but I understand 
> that it is possible - libraries, for example. So it's at least 
> theoretically possible that the output could be a derivative work of 
> the compiler, and if so, this is a quasi-copyleft requirement (more 
> about that in a moment), which is acceptable for an open source license.
>
A great example of this is the run time exception in the GCC: 
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html

"When you use GCC to compile a program, GCC may combine portions of
certain GCC header files and runtime libraries with the compiled
program. The purpose of this Exception is to allow compilation of
non-GPL (including proprietary) programs to use, in this way, the
header files and runtime libraries covered by this Exception."
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