Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> writes: >> Robert, do you know anything about licence trouble in gcc 4.4? >> Apparently there is some GPLv3 taint in there now which may make >> trouble for GPLv2 apps and maybe others, but I haven't heard >> anything yet on if/how this will be resolved ... > > I don't think there's any trouble. I know they recently added a > plugin API for GCC, and changed their license model so that copyleft > extends to plugins. > > I think this amounts to: > > - Switch from LGPL to GPL. > > - Add a license exception [1] that allows using GCC to compile > code that would otherwise violate the GPL (and linking it with > libgcc, etc). > > I could be missing some detail though, but I have no reason to > believe they extended the copyleft to programs compiled with GCC.
The problem lays not in new gcc license but in GPL v.2 license of programs being compiled which disallows linking with gcc runtime. Few weeks ago there was a thread on gcc mailing list about it but it was off topic for that list and was not finished so I don't know any conclusion. -- Tomasz Gajewski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
