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Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik at tiuk dot ti dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:49:52 GMT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, monty at mysql dot com, gcc-announce at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
- Organization: via, but not speaking for : Texas Instruments Ltd.
- References: <20010109133912.D8ABF34D88@nile.gnat.com>
- Reply-To: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik at tiuk dot ti dot com>
<dewar@gnat.com> writes:
>>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
You last quote said "operating system" - which, while vague, most programmers
would have a reasonable idea what is meant.
But _anything_ could be considered part of the "operating environment" ...
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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.