RMS approved relicensing gcov-io.c, so I've applied this patch to trunk, 4.6 and 4.5 branch to add the license exception. Perhaps someone with a 4.4 branch checkout could apply it there as well?
2011-04-06 Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> * gcov-io.c: Use GCC Runtime Library Exception. Index: gcov-io.c =================================================================== --- gcov-io.c (revision 172052) +++ gcov-io.c (working copy) @@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see +Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional +permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version +3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and +a copy of the GCC Runtime Library Exception along with this program; +see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ /* Routines declared in gcov-io.h. This file should be #included by -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com