Mike, Thank you for your reply. I will file a PR shortly.
Since we are on a very tight schedule to migrate to gcc4.1.0, we cannot wait until gcc4.2 to be released. But before we can roll out this compiler, we need to have some written statement from FSF that says it's legally safe to link with these libraries even with those problematic files. Who should I contact for such a statement? Thanks again! Christina --- Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:28 PM, xiaoyi wang wrote: > > In order to make sure that our proprietary code is > not exposed to > > GPL restrictions by using gcc, > > Thanks for the audit. I'm getting the feeling that > we should > introduce features into the files and give hard > compilation errors > when the rules are violated to help ensure that we > don't regress in > this area. :-( > > > 1> Is it legally safe to link with these libraries > to propietary > > software? Does FSF have any formal statement to > clarify this issue? > > 2> Who should we contact to add GPL exception > clauses to those files? > > Ultimately, us. It is a bug that needs addressing. > > > Here are the problematic files I found that only > have > > GPL without exception clauses in gcc4.1.0: > > Please file a PR for them. I think it should be > marked as a release > blocker for 4.2, and we should fix any problems in > release branches. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
