From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Widenius To: Mark Mitchell Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 03:52:00 -0000 Message-id: <14939.2027.535968.638519@narttu.mysql.fi> References: <20010109003917Q.mitchell@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00432.html Hi! >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell writes: Mark> We've learned that the usage of GCC on U/WIN involves a violation of Mark> the GNU GPL, linking GCC with a non-free third-party support library; Mark> therefore, we have removed the support for such usage. Mark> Note that GCC is merely a special case: it is a violation of the GPL Mark> to link *any* GPL'd program with the U/WIN support library. Sorry, but shouldn't it be the other way around? Of what I understand of GPL, it's ok to link a GPL program with ANY library. If that would be true, you could not link a GPL program with any commercial toolkit and there is clearly many such programs around! It's only when you do it the other way around the GPL comes into affect; If you have a commercial program and link with a GPL library, then it's a violation of the GPL if the commercial program is not GPL. I am very interested in your reasoning about this; Any change you can point me out to the information/person on which you base your statement? Regards, Monty MySQL Moderator