From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6qcfprf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
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. (Previous discussions have centered on infringing GCC's
license, so this is different.) An operating system vendor cannot
make use of the system library exception in the GPL version 2; this
part is quite similar to the OpenSSL and former Qt situation.
According to Kalle, this is [gnu.org #433709] at the FSF.
What shall we do about it? Any solution without support from the FSF
will result in circumventing the restrictions imposed by the new GCC
library exception.
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-25 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 20:53 Florian Weimer [this message]
2009-07-26 1:57 ` Joe Buck
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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