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Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com, monty at mysql dot com
- Subject: Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:39:12 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc-announce at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>Of what I understand of GPL, it's ok to link a GPL program with ANY
>library. If that would be true, you could not link a GPL program with
>any commercial toolkit and there is clearly many such programs around!
This is incorrect, a program aggregated by linking a GPL program with
another library which is NOT part of the operating environment cannot
be distributed under the terms of the GPL. That's fundamental and it
is actually a little surprising to read the above paragraph. I trust
no one is actually operating under such a serious misaprehension. If
they are, sounds like some copyright violation is taking place!