* Ansgar Burchardt: > People have argued before that this applies to Debian. In that case > Debian wouldn't be able to distribute binaries of GPL-2-only programs > linking against any GPL-3+ runtime libraries like libstdc++? Or am I > missing something?
Yes, I think we need the system library exception for distributing programs such as Git, which are GPLv2-only. libgcc is used at least on some platforms by Git. Some people have argued that the GCC run-time library exception <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.html makes libgcc compatible with the GPL, version 2, but I really do not see how this is the case. The exception is pretty clear that libgcc code remains covered by the GPL, version 3, I think.
