Re: New GCC Runtime Library Exception: not fit for purpose

[Joern Rennecke <amylaar at spamcop dot net>]

Quoting Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>:

> Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > Quoting Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>:
> > > I'm not sure what your point is here.  newlib is not under the GPL in
> > > any case.  It is not affected by the gcc runtime library license.
> >
> > The old runtime library exception allowed you to distribute binaries that
> > both include pieces of the gcc runtime and arbitrary pieces of newlib,
> > without requiring the distribution to be under the terms of the GPL.
> > I.e. your could link non-GPL code against both the gcc runtime and newlib
> > and distribute it.
> > The new license does not allow this unless all parts included from newlib
> > are written in a high level language AND use the gcc runtime.
>
> If they do not use the GCC runtime, why should those parts be affected
> by the GCC runtime license?

It is not the parts of newlib that are affected, it is users that are
affected who want to link newlib which includes these parts - together
with libgcc and Independent Modules, and distribute the resulting
binaries under non-GPL terms.  They will no longer be allowed to do
this with when they are using a single link step, as they are creating
a derived work for which they have no license to distribute, except
possibly the GPL.