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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/06/30
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Wes said

<<Oops.  I didn't finish.  There were two suggestions of GPL'd code
related to the above: the first was "whatever is inside of GDB to
do that" and the other was "whatever gcc does for the
__builtin_frame_address"
>>

Are you saying this from actually having looked at the code in question in
these two cases? Because if so, I am surprised. Yes, you could certainly
get useful ideas in both these cases (and no one is protecting the *ideas*
in this code, you are invited to borrow them), but I would be very surprised
if you could really copy code usefully in either of these cases.