Re: License text irregularity in gcc/config/mips/linux-unwind.h

["Sam Lauber" <sam124 at operamail dot com>]

__Way__ to close to the LGPL.  The LGPL in effect, says the 
GPL with that kind exception (letting people link this 
with there program regardless of whether the license is 
GPL-compatible).  I think that those exceptions in 
`libgcc' are conflicting with one of the sections of the 
GPL that prevents proprietary software authors from 
linking in GPLd software.  I think that is an important 
privlage for the free software community.  
As for the exception missing, it should be kept that way.  

Samuel Lauber
> It seems that most source files for libgcc have the following exception text:
> 
> ---------8<----------------
> 
> In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the
> Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited permission to link the
> compiled version of this file with other programs, and to distribute
> those programs without any restriction coming from the use of this
> file.  (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other
> respects; for example, they cover modification of the file, and
> distribution when not linked into another program.)
> 
> ---------8<----------------
> 
> Which allows libgcc to be linked to a program with out forcing that 
> program to be GPLed.
> 
> gcc/config/mips/linux-unwind.h is part of libgcc but does not have 
> the exception in its copyright section.
> 
> It seems that this is an oversight.
> 
> I can add the exception if it is deemed the proper thing to do.
> 
> David Daney

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