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License of libgfortran routines.
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:54:15 +0100
- Subject: License of libgfortran routines.
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, NL
Gents,
I finally found time to put the question of "which license should the
routines in libgfortran fall under" to the Steering Committee.
RMS said he uses the following rationale:
"There is no one correct license, for run time libraries.
Probably different parts should be licensed differently.
Consider C: libgcc is under the GPL with a broad exception,
while GNU libc is under the LGPL.
The way I decided to divide it up is as follows:
* The functions in libgcc are mostly small, and support language
facilities; the user may not realize the program will call them.
* The functions in Glibc are called explicitly by the program."
I hope this direction is enough to determine the license for each routine.
Thanks in advance for updates,
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