From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10696 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2009 01:57:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 10686 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jul 2009 01:57:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from us02smtp1.synopsys.com (HELO vaxjo.synopsys.com) (198.182.60.75) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:57:33 +0000 Received: from maiden.synopsys.com (maiden.synopsys.com [146.225.100.170]) by vaxjo.synopsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63796E70E; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venkatar-opt-lnx.internal.synopsys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maiden.synopsys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA08923; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venkatar-opt-lnx.internal.synopsys.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by venkatar-opt-lnx.internal.synopsys.com (8.13.1/8.12.3) with ESMTP id n6Q1vU77029594; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:57:30 -0700 Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by venkatar-opt-lnx.internal.synopsys.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n6Q1vPEg029593; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:57:25 -0700 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:57:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Florian Weimer Cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4 Message-ID: <20090726015725.GA29580@synopsys.com> References: <87y6qcfprf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y6qcfprf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg00525.txt.bz2 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.