From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9423 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2012 21:23:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 9411 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Aug 2012 21:23:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iy0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-iy0-f175.google.com) (209.85.210.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:23:19 +0000 Received: by iaky10 with SMTP id y10so5915683iak.20 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:23:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.15.202 with SMTP id z10mr5949284igc.50.1345929799135; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.49.81 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:23:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50393CB7.5040607@gmail.com> References: <7D3F997945FA4AEAA34010AAEFFD4335@Byron> <87fw7bs9w9.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <50390B17.5050104@gcc.gnu.org> <503932B6.20704@gcc.gnu.org> <50393CB7.5040607@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Simple question From: Jonathan Wakely To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel_Gonz=E1lez?= Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , Florian Weimer , gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, Byron Blue , Georg-Johann Lay Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00244.txt.bz2 On Aug 25, 2012 10:01 PM, "=C1ngel Gonz=E1lez" wrote: > > That's probably because the Runtime library exception requires an explicit > notice on affected files. Had the FSF additionally "licensed" that any > non-GPL > code compiled with an official release of gcc is subject to that > exception and > is not bound to the GPL due to the compilation. Many (maybe most) people don't use official releases, they use the version provided by their distro, which might be modified. The OP asked a simple question and the answer is that using GCC to compile non-free code is ok. This thread should have ended there.