From gcc  Tue Nov 10 17:12:06 1998
From: Richard Stallman <rms () santafe ! edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:12:06 +0000
To: gcc
Subject: Re: LPGL (was "GCC2 merging")
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gcc&m=91077168130353

    Using a Free Software license, we have to give everybody the rights that
    the maintainers have.

We never give everyone the right to change distribution terms of a
piece of code.  For example, we don't give any user permission to move
a function from Emacs (covered by the GPL) to libc (covered by the
LGPL) or from the GCC sources (covered by the GPL with no exceptions)
to libgcc2.c (which has an exception for linking into executables).

Users can change any function into a template or a macro or an inline
function if they want, but they can't change the distribution terms.