License compliance on updating gcc runtime libraries

2019-02-27 Thread hiraku.toyooka
Hello, I have questions about the GCC Runtime Library Exception. When an equipment vendor distributes an update of shared gcc runtime libraries (e.g. libgcc_s.so, libstdc++.so) to the shipped equipment and when the equipment has applications which are dynamically linked to older release of the sh

Re: License compliance on updating gcc runtime libraries

2019-02-28 Thread hiraku.toyooka
Thank you for your reply. > The exception applies to the application code, not to libgcc_s.so, > libstdc++.so etc. I noticed my prerequisite might be wrong. I thought that the shared runtime libraries are also included in the "work of Target Code formed by combining the Runtime Library with Indep

Re: License compliance on updating gcc runtime libraries

2019-02-28 Thread hiraku.toyooka
> Note that nobody can give you definitive answers to questions like this > since they haven't been litigated. So any answer is an "educated guess". Yes. I understand I cannot get definitive answers for license interpretation. > My view is that it's both, depending on the context. Remember that