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Re: Copyright question: libgcc GPL exceptions
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: John Marshall <jmarshall at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, licensing at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:32:48 -0800
- Subject: Re: Copyright question: libgcc GPL exceptions
- References: <bd882a4ad923a546d801cf54e4ae5889@users.sourceforge.net>
John Marshall <jmarshall@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Mike Stump wrote:
>> The canonical form can be found in gcc/libgcc2.c:
>>
>> [...] (The General Public License restrictions
>> do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of
>> the file, and distribution when not linked into a combine
>> executable.)
>
> (Been wondering about this for a while...) Possibly this is one of
> those North American dialect things, but to this (non-American)
> English speaker this canonical form appears to contain a typo.
>
> "[...] when not linked into a combined executable", surely?
I think you are right, but changes to this wording need to be run by
the FSF.
zw