From: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090726015725.GA29580@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6qcfprf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:53:40PM -0700, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered that as an operating system vendor,
> you are not allowed to distribute GPL version 2 programs if they are
> compiled with GCC 4.4. The run-time library is GPL version 3 or
> later, which is incompatible with GPL version 2, so it is not
> permitted to link this with the GPLv2-only program and distribute the
> result.
That's incorrect. The runtime library is GPLv3 or later, but with an
*exception* that permits linking not only with GPLv2 programs, but
also with proprietary programs.
The relevant document is the GCC Runtime Library Exception.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-26 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 20:53 Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 1:57 ` Joe Buck [this message]
2009-07-26 6:47 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 9:38 ` Arnaud Charlet
2009-07-26 9:51 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 9:56 ` Arnaud Charlet
2009-07-26 10:19 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 21:51 ` Joe Buck
2009-07-27 6:10 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-27 7:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-27 9:35 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-27 9:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-27 10:07 ` Robert Dewar
2009-07-27 10:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-27 10:28 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2009-07-27 11:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-27 12:19 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2009-07-27 10:38 ` Dave Korn
2009-07-27 12:12 ` Robert Dewar
2009-07-27 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-27 12:10 ` Robert Dewar
2009-07-27 14:29 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-07-28 0:34 ` Russ Allbery
2009-07-28 0:57 ` Joe Buck
2009-07-26 7:12 ` Vincent Lefevre
2009-07-27 21:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
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