On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:18:17PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > We are using the MontaVista release of gcc. We had a 30 days license from > > MontaVista for their DevRocket development platform. > > > > We had a big surprise when the license expired. Gcc stopped working from > > the command line and displayed a message stating the license time expired. > > > > I had a talk about this with Andrew at the OLS in Ottawa and he said I > > should contact you about this so you know this is happening. > > IANAL, but the short answer is that yes, this is legal. You should be able > to > get the source for your binaries via MontaVista, and you're free to rebuild > them without the license checking bits. Of course whether MontaVista > continue to talk to you afterwards is up to them.
If you suspect a violation of GCC's license, please read the page http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html for help on figuring out whether there is a likely violation, and how to report it.
