RE: MinGW G++ license information (was RE: Information Required)

["Sharma, Vaibhav /CS" <vaibhav.sharma@exxonmobil.com>]

Hi John,

This has been acknowledged.

Thanks for your valuable support to get our review move forward.


Regards,

Vaibhav Sharma
Software Analyst
New Products & Complex Team
EMIT | IT OPS | CES | ADS| SAM

HCL Technologies Ltd. 
(CIN: L74140DL1991PLC046369)
10th Floor, ODC-IV, Software Tower 6, Sector 126
Noida SEZ, Uttar Pradesh – 201301, India
Office: +1 408 809 3746 (Extension - 414-4398) 
Email : vaibhav.sharma@exxonmobil.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dallman, John [mailto:john.dallman@siemens.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 4:47 PM
To: Sharma, Vaibhav /CS; 'Jonathan Wakely'
Cc: GSC-EMIT-HCL-ITAM-NP&C-UIT; Singla, Kanika /CS; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Dallman, John
Subject: RE: MinGW G++ license information (was RE: Information Required)

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> We will get back to you if we need any further information to move forward with the review.

Please note that I have no direct connection with the GCC project (I just use their compiler on Linux) and don't know much about MinGW at all. I'm just trying to be helpful, because I have a little experience in explaining the Gnu world to corporate IT types.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharma, Vaibhav /CS <vaibhav.sharma@exxonmobil.com>
> Sent: 18 August 2020 12:00
> To: Dallman, John (DI SW PE OT PC PDE) <john.dallman@siemens.com>;
> 'Jonathan Wakely' <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
> Cc: GSC-EMIT-HCL-ITAM-NP&C-UIT <GSC-EMIT-HCL-ITAM-NP&C-
> UIT@exxonmobil.com>; Singla, Kanika /CS
> <kanika.singla@exxonmobil.com>; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: RE: MinGW G++ license information (was RE: Information Required)
>
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for sharing this information with us.
>
> We will get back to you if we need any further information to move forward
> with the review.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vaibhav Sharma
> Software Analyst
> New Products & Complex Team
> EMIT | IT OPS | CES | ADS| SAM
>
> HCL Technologies Ltd.
> (CIN: L74140DL1991PLC046369)
> 10th Floor, ODC-IV, Software Tower 6, Sector 126 Noida SEZ, Uttar Pradesh –
> 201301, India
> Office: +1 408 809 3746 (Extension - 414-4398) Email :
> vaibhav.sharma@exxonmobil.com
>
> for
>
> ExxonMobil Global Services Company
> 22777 Springwoods Village Parkway
> Spring, TX 77389
> United States of America
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dallman, John [mailto:john.dallman@siemens.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:51 PM
> To: Sharma, Vaibhav /CS; 'Jonathan Wakely'
> Cc: GSC-EMIT-HCL-ITAM-NP&C-UIT; Singla, Kanika /CS; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: MinGW G++ license information (was RE: Information Required)
>
> External Email - Think Before You Click
>
>
>
> The MinGW builds of GCC for Windows are not used by nearly as many
> people as the Linux builds, and many people on this list, such as me, will be
> unfamiliar with the MinGW file layout. If you go to
> http://www.mingw.org/license and scroll down to "Binutils, GCC, GDB, GNU
> Make", you'll see that the Gnu development tools, such as GCC, are under
> various versions of the Gnu General Public License, aka "GPL". You can read
> about that at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL.
>
> To find out which version of GPL the GCC/g++ you have is under, look for a
> file or files matching *COPYING* in whatever directories MinGW GCC is
> installed in.
>
> You would appear to be unfamiliar with free software licenses: they are very
> different from those for most commercial software. Please read the
> COPYING files, and think about their implications. They say what they mean,
> in quite plain language, and they have the opposite intent from most
> commercial licenses.
>
> --
> John Dallman
> DI SW PES OT PC PDE
> Open Tools
> Nullius in verba
>
> Siemens Digital Industries Software
> Siemens Industry Software Limited
> Francis House, 112 Hills Road,
> Cambridge CB2 1PH, United Kingdom
> Tel.      :+44 (1223) 371554
> Fax       :+44 (1223) 371700
> john.dallman@siemens.com
> www.siemens.com/plm
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gcc-help <gcc-help-bounces@gcc.gnu.org> On Behalf Of Sharma,
> > Vaibhav /CS via Gcc-help
> > Sent: 17 August 2020 20:58
> > To: 'Jonathan Wakely' <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
> > Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; GSC-EMIT-HCL-ITAM-NP&C-UIT <GSC-EMIT-
> HCL-
> > ITAM-NP&C-UIT@exxonmobil.com>; Singla, Kanika /CS
> > <kanika.singla@exxonmobil.com>
> > Subject: RE: Information Required
> >
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > We are unable to track terms and conditions associated with GCC in the
> > provided link.
> >
> > Could you please help us with the agreement (terms and conditions)
> > associated with GCC, so that same can be referred for g++.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Vaibhav Sharma
> > Software Analyst
> > New Products & Complex Team
> > EMIT | IT OPS | CES | ADS| SAM
> >
> > HCL Technologies Ltd.
> > (CIN: L74140DL1991PLC046369)
> > 10th Floor, ODC-IV, Software Tower 6, Sector 126 Noida SEZ, Uttar
> > Pradesh – 201301, India
> > Office: +1 408 809 3746 (Extension - 414-4398) Email :
> > vaibhav.sharma@exxonmobil.com
> >
> > for
> >
> > ExxonMobil Global Services Company
> > 22777 Springwoods Village Parkway
> > Spring, TX 77389
> > United States of America
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Wakely [mailto:jwakely.gcc@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 9:49 PM
> > To: Sharma, Vaibhav /CS
> > Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; GSC-EMIT-HCL-ITAM-NP&C-UIT; Singla, Kanika
> > /CS
> > Subject: Re: Information Required
> >
> > External Email - Think Before You Click
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 20:20, Sharma, Vaibhav /CS via Gcc-help <gcc-
> > help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Team,
> > >
> > > Greetings for the day !
> > >
> > > We are from Software Asset Management (SAM) Team of ExxonMobil
> and
> > we are working on a request for an In-House application Devstar which
> > has
> > g++ (Source : mingw.org) as one of the third party component.
> > >
> > > We are unable to track Terms and Conditions associated with this
> > component.
> >
> > It's free software. See its licence.
> >
> > > Could you please confirm if g++ is a separate component or it is a
> > > part of
> > GCC. If yes, please confirm the agreement covering this component.
> >
> > G++ is part of GCC.
> >
> > There is no agreement covering it, it's free software.
> > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
>
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