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Distributing GCC dynamic libs with commercial software?
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- Subject: Distributing GCC dynamic libs with commercial software?
- From: "Steve Johnson" <sjohnson at Equilibrium dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:46:38 -0800
- Cc: "Matt Butler" <mbutler at equilibrium dot com>
- Thread-Index: AcCs+ihxxY1X8y+8RKqXuDKptK+x6Q==
- Thread-Topic: 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.