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Distributing GCC dynamic libs with commercial software?


I am a developer of commercial software.  I am considering using GCC to
compile our product on Solaris, and am wondering what my options are
regarding the redistribution of the dynamic libraries (.so's) that come
with GCC.  I will be compiling C++ code, so I'm interested in those
libraries necessary to support C++ as well as C.

GCC comes with copies of both the GPL and the LGPL.  I think I'm OK if
all of the libraries that come with GCC are covered by the LGPL, but the
LGPL itself states that some libraries are covered by the GPL.  I can't
find anywhere that indicates which libraries are covered by which
license.

I downloaded a copy of the libstdc++ library sources, and was suprised
to find that that distribution had no license file (no COPYING) provided
with it.

Can someone provide me with or point me to a coherent statement of what
.so's I am able to ship as part of my commercial product?

TIA,

Steve Johnson
Equilibrium Technologies, Inc.


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