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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria


> 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.

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