Re: FW: Question about MontaVista Licence Management of gcc (Is this legal?)

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:18:17PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > 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.

If you suspect a violation of GCC's license, please read the page

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

for help on figuring out whether there is a likely violation, and how to
report it.