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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, sb at metis dot no
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 15:28:37 -0700 (PDT)
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
> Date: 01 May 2000 13:27:16 +0200
> Doing that is easy technically, but I'm not sure about the legal
> implications. Does distributing a libstdc++.so require me to
> distribute the source for that .so
I hope that we will fix the wording in libstdc++ (and all compiler
runtimes) to allow this before the next release. The intent I believe
was to disclaim ownership compiler generated machine code, both an
executable and a library fall into this same category.
> and the compiler it was built with?
This has never been necessary, nor will it. This would be pure FUD.