Tenuous or not, I believe GCC explicitly has a licensing exception that states that compiler output is not considered a derivative work of the compiler, and thus must also be licensed under the GPL. So the GNU/FSF folks at least thought it was a concerning enough legal idea to explicitly account for it.
Not sure we can say that a linker is the same as a compiler in this sense, but if so, maybe it is indeed worrisome.
Not sure we can say that a linker is the same as a compiler in this sense, but if so, maybe it is indeed worrisome.