On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 04:05  PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

>> This is unworkable.  Even FSF doesn't pretend otherwise.  If gcc and
>> the GNU C libraries were arranged so that all programs generated and
>> using them had to be GPL'd, nobody would use the tools.
>
> Nobody? That seems unlikely.

Fine.  Substitute "almost nobody."

If you have any doubts, consider that even FSF doesn't dare adopt an 
"principled" position on the point.