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Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

To: gcc-announce at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
Subject: Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
From: dewar at gnat dot com
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 06:55:51 -0500 (EST)

<<Note that GCC is merely a special case: it is a violation of the GPL
to link *any* GPL'd program with the U/WIN support library.
>>

We need to clarify a bit, anyone can do this for themselves, it is
*distributing* the resulting program that is the potential violation
of the GPL. The act of linking is never of itself a violation of the
license.

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