On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Joern Rennecke wrote: > Yes, that is the longlong.h I was referring to. I thought that it had the > gcc library exception, so that we could simply autoconf its use in newlib. > However, looking at the file, I see that you are correct, it is GPL without > a library exception. > This is not only a problem with the use in newlib I was thinking of, but > also with its usage in gcc by libgcc, because it means that programs linked > with libgcc have to be GPL licensed when distributed unless the user has a > separate license from the included code from the author which allows > distribution other licenses.
As code shared by GCC and glibc I would suggest the same license notice as soft-fp (LGPL >= 2.1 + exception) to allow an identical file to be shared. (Indeed, soft-fp uses this header.) The version in GMP diverged long ago so sharing the file with that may not be feasible. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
