Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Re: Tiny Cobol

[Rildo P. <rpr...@ac...>]

Hi Richard,

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Richard Stallman wrote:

> However, the idea of making this a GCC front end raises an issue.
> Would you like to assign the copyright on this code to the FSF?
> That is what we normally ask for, for front ends for GCC.

I don't see any problem with it. When I decided to open the source of the
original compiler that evolved to Tiny Cobol, I was just trying to make
something useful of some code I have already thrown away. It was residing
in my archival of "old crap things" and it got a revival now with the help
of many friends.  I don't answer for the others, but my personal opinion
is that we make it wide open and protected from lack of openess, that's
why I choose to put it under GPL.  The obvious restriction is that the
libraries be LGPL so there could be deployed in business applications.

best wishes,
Rildo
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