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[Bug other/28002] decNumber sources need GPL+exception for use in libgcc
- From: "janis at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 12 Jan 2007 21:41:37 -0000
- Subject: [Bug other/28002] decNumber sources need GPL+exception for use in libgcc
- References: <bug-28002-4503@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- Comment #3 from janis at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-01-12 21:41 -------
RMS declined to relicense the decNumber source files.
We've got the same problem with config/dfp-bit.[ch], which were new files added
by GCC developers from IBM, and a couple of other minor files in libdecnumber/.
Decimal float support has not yet been in a released version of GCC. In 4.2
and mainline it is not enabled, and support is not included in libgcc, unless
configured with --enable-decimal-float. Perhaps that option should be changed
to --enable-decimal-float-including-GPL-runtime.
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