License debate conclusion

[Daniel Sabo]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:10:45 -0800, James A Sutherland wrote:

> On Sunday 23 December 2001 4:09 pm, Dan Kegel wrote:
>> Roger Fujii wrote:
>> > Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.com> wrote:

[snip.]

> "Agreed"? My view is that compilers (or any "program that generates
> code") should have *NO* say whatsoever in licensing of the output. Or do
> you want to see VC++ prohibiting the development of software competing
> with MS offerings?

[snip]

In fact, the VC++ license says that you may not use it to develop software
not intended for the Microsoft Windows platform.