* Ian Lance Taylor: > After the e-mail flurry, here is my personal summary of the issues > regarding the GCC Runtime Library Exception > (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.html).
Thanks! > One way to resolve this might be to say that a compilation process > is Eligible so long as the input to GCC was produced exclusively > using programs which are not themselves derived from GCC. I don't > think that this approach would weaken the goals of the runtime > library exception. This is still somewhat unclear as long as it's not clearly said that for the purpose of determing eligibility in this way, portions of GCC which are potentially covered by this exception are not taken into account. This addition would break the vicious circle on self-hosting, GNU-like systems.
