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Re:mold - The (really) fast linker by daveguy on Saturday January 14, 2023 @04:56PM (#34384545)
It is unusual for the products of compilers and linkers to be infected by the original license. See: gcc.
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Re:mold - The (really) fast linker by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:38PM (#34384828)
That aspect is unusual, but I don't see how that affects whether or not it would be license extortion.
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Re:mold - The (really) fast linker by mmastrac on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:01PM (#34384571)
I don't recall seeing a single developer tool where the output was anything other than fully under the copyright of the author of the input files (or fully liberally licensed in the case of additional code objects).
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