From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29338 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2009 07:08:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 29328 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2009 07:08:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (HELO mail-bw0-f211.google.com) (209.85.218.211) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:08:43 +0000 Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so2422902bwz.8 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.118.207 with SMTP id w15mr2781982bkq.97.1248678518540; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yakj.usersys.redhat.com ([85.93.118.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k29sm10617367fkk.26.2009.07.27.00.08.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A6D5274.6060605@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:08:00 -0000 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Weimer CC: Joe Buck , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4 References: <87y6qcfprf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20090726015725.GA29580@synopsys.com> <87y6qc0wmc.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20090726215044.GA21312@synopsys.com> <87ocr6ejwr.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <87ocr6ejwr.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00541.txt.bz2 > But if I change the run-time library, I still have to license those > changes under the GPLv3 if I want to distribute them, right? Yes. But if you change the runtime library and link something else with the modified runtime library, the "something else" does not fall automatically under the GPLv3, even if you distribute them together. The runtime library must be accompanied by the preferred form for modification (source code), the "something else" can even be distributed as a binary. Paolo