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Re: license information for gcc

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: David Kirkby <david dot kirkby at onetel dot net>, Hashimoto Yuya <hill_climb at hotmail dot com>
Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:21:06 -0700
Subject: Re: license information for gcc
References: <KAW101-W252323BC5FC57758045DCDF8570@phx.gbl> <AANLkTikn0CMD_FTHKXBVQh=vh5eA3wvB-1qQKn2BOrBc@mail.gmail.com>

David Kirkby <david.kirkby@onetel.net> writes:

> To the best of my knowledge, current versions are GPL3 and earlier
> ones GPL2. Perhaps really early version had other licenses. The
> libraries are released under LGPL, so you can use gcc to build closed
> source applications.

All gcc versions between 2.x and 4.2 were under GPLv2.  Before 2.x they
were under GPLv1.  I'm not sure off-hand of the exact value of x; it may
be 0, that is, 2.0 may have been under GPLv2.

GPLv2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
GPLv1: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-1.0.html

Ian

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