gnupg windows installer

[Rich]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:50:22 +0100 or Thereabouts
The voices in my head told me that Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> said:

> > hm, are you saying that Software written in a language where no
> > Free Software compiler exists can not be Free Software?
> 
> Yes.  From the GPL:
> 
> | control compilation and installation of the executable.  However, as a
> | special exception, the source code distributed need not include
> | anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
> | form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
> | operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
> | itself accompanies the executable.

  I'm not certain that I understand the above snippet of text without
further context, but I asked Richard M. Stallman and some Slashdot
people this question:

  "In one of the mailing lists to which I subscribe, someone today
    suggested that generating binaries with non-free compilers, and
    releasing them under the GPL, (with source code of course) violates
    the GPL."
 
  Richard M. Stallman said this:

  "That is not so.  The GPL does not require the compiler to be
free."

  And one of the Slashdot editors said:

 "Nope. You've misinterpreted the GPL. ANY compiler can be used to create
GPL'd code with no complications whatsoever. There are plenty of Open
Source, Freeware, and Shareware out there in the Windows and Mac world
to corroborate this fact."
 
 Anyway... for what it's worth. 

  Rich...
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