Re: Distributing GCC dynamic libs with commercial software?

[dewar at gnat dot com]

<<Can someone provide me with or point me to a coherent statement of what
.so's I am able to ship as part of my commercial product?
>>

Note that you are asking for a legal opinion here, and it seems a bit unlikely
that an informal statement on this list from someone who is not an attorney 
and with whom you have no contractual relationship can provide a reliable
response. Remember that it is your responsibility to ensure that you 
avoid copyright violations (copyright is after all a strict liability
issue, it is not a defense that you tried to find out). So if you want to
distribute GNU material in a restrictive proprietary environment (I assume
you meant proprietary and not commercial in your above query, since 
commercial and free software are by no means incompatible), then you really
have to take responsibility yourself to ensure you are following the conditions
of any licenses, and that the material you are using is indeed licensed in
the manner that you are counting on (remember once again that copyright is
strict liability, so relying on a license or copyright notice attached to
a file is not necessarily sufficient).

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
(one of several companies that provides commercial GPL'ed software 
to its customers -- along with clear license statements :-)