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Re: Regarding the "TheOtherGCCBasedFortranCompiler" Wiki Page
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: bmoses at stanford dot edu (Brooks Moses)
- Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:24:02 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Regarding the "TheOtherGCCBasedFortranCompiler" Wiki Page
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> I have also included a "license" section, with the following text:
> ----
> Both g95 and gfortran are released under the GPL as free software,
> allowing their source code to be freely reused in other GPL-licensed
> projects.
>
> As of late 2005, the g95 runtime library is also licensed under the GPL,
> rather than the LGPL. Compiled binaries include code from the runtime
> library; thus, this license only permits the distribution of binaries
> compiled using g95 if they are released with source code as free
> software under a GPL-compatible license. The gfortran runtime library
> is licensed under the LGPL, and thus there is no such restriction on
> binaries compiled using gfortran.
> ----
>
> I am unsure whether this should go or stay, and would welcome opinions.
> (In particular, we are certain that this is still true, yes?)
Well libgfortran does not use LGPL so that statement is false. What it
uses is GPL plus an exception when it comes to linking.
-- Pinski