Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4

[fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:

> [...]
>>> b) you should ignore all such discussions, since they invariablly
>>>    include lots of legal-sounding opinions from people who are not
>>>    lawyers and don't know, and often have significant misconceptions.
>>
>> This is not about legal issues.  It's about FSF policy.  [...]

(Perhaps this was a poorly chosen summary sentence; Florian's next
paragraph more clearly asks the GCC developers' opinion:

# It seems to me that the new GCC run-time library license has the
# side effect of forcing GPLed software to upgrade to GPL version 3 to
# remain redistributable in compiled form.  If this is not your intent
# (as GCC developers), I think the Steering Committee should ask the
# FSF for official clarification on this matter.


> Discussion of FSF policy on licensing issues is also off-topic for
> this mailing list.

Perhaps, yet the libgcc exception licensing issues were quite
prominently discussed right here, and not too many months ago.
Florian's concern sounds linearly connected to that.  If this is as
trivial a matter as some people seem to hint, perhaps someone can
supply a link to a prior discussion for it.


- FChE