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Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- From: Michael Widenius <monty at mysql dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:45:31 +0200 (EET)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-announce at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010109003917Q.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-To: monty at mysql dot com
Hi!
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
Mark> We've learned that the usage of GCC on U/WIN involves a violation of
Mark> the GNU GPL, linking GCC with a non-free third-party support library;
Mark> therefore, we have removed the support for such usage.
Mark> Note that GCC is merely a special case: it is a violation of the GPL
Mark> to link *any* GPL'd program with the U/WIN support library.
Sorry, but shouldn't it be the other way around?
Of what I understand of GPL, it's ok to link a GPL program with ANY
library. If that would be true, you could not link a GPL program with
any commercial toolkit and there is clearly many such programs around!
It's only when you do it the other way around the GPL comes into
affect;
If you have a commercial program and link with a GPL library, then
it's a violation of the GPL if the commercial program is not GPL.
I am very interested in your reasoning about this; Any change you can
point me out to the information/person on which you base your
statement?
Regards,
Monty
MySQL Moderator