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Re:The Day AppGet Died by chii on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:00AM (#23333253)
It's untested in court.

GCC is written specifically to prevent this sort of firewalling of the compiler to prevent it from being plugged into another piece of software and avoid GPL requirements.

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by hnick on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:13AM (#23333605)
Good to know, it'll be interesting if it ever does get tested.

Even then there's always the analogue/human loophole I suppose, similar to captcha mechanical turks.

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