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Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4

> GPLv2 (I tried to stress by writing "GPLv2-only").

Understood.

> > If the latter (the license includes something like "either version 2
> > of the License, or (at your option) any later version"), then
> > nothing prevents you from distributing the program under GPLv3+
> > instead of GPLv2+.
> 
> Right, but we've got some stuff which is GPLv2-only, such as Git,
> OpenOffice, OpenJDK, etc.

I guess you should check with FSF lawyers in this case.

I suspect that other clauses would apply. For example, assuming that the GCC 4.4
run-time is part of the OS (which is likely the case you described as far as I
understand), then the GPLv2 OS exception clause would apply.

But of course, I'm not a lawyer, so the best advice is to check with FSF
directly, since this list is not the right media for it.

Arno
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