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Re: Query about GPL-license
- To: "Tom Womack" <tom at womack dot net>
- Subject: Re: Query about GPL-license
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:06:43 -0600
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <002f01bfd5ee$e4dd3be0$5637f380@maths.nottingham.ac.uk>you write:
> I know that the output of GCC is not covered by the GPL because libgcc.a ha
> s
> a specific exemption.
>
> Could you confirm that the same applies to the output of G++ when I'm
> compiling STL code (so including lumps of templated stuff for map<foo,bar>,
> as well as libstdc++ to get iostream working right)?
Linking libstdc++ does not infect your code with the GPL. libstdc++'s
components have license clauses which prevent infection.
jeff