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Re: FW: Question about MontaVista Licence Management of gcc (Is this legal?)
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: "Serge Croteau" <scroteau at classeaudio dot com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:18:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: FW: Question about MontaVista Licence Management of gcc (Is this legal?)
- References: <33AE8D13-0036-404C-96FC-A273961598B0@classeaudio.com>
> We are using the MontaVista release of gcc. ?We had a 30 days license from
> MontaVista for their DevRocket development platform.
>
> We had a big surprise when the license expired. ?Gcc stopped working from
> the command line and displayed a message stating the license time expired.
>
> I had a talk about this with Andrew at the OLS in Ottawa and he said I
> should contact you about this so you know this is happening.
IANAL, but the short answer is that yes, this is legal. You should be able to
get the source for your binaries via MontaVista, and you're free to rebuild
them without the license checking bits. Of course whether MontaVista
continue to talk to you afterwards is up to them.
Paul