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Re: license information for gcc
Hashimoto Yuya <hill_climb@hotmail.com> writes:
> Thank you very much for your reply.
>
>> To the best of my knowledge, current versions are GPL3 and earlier
>> ones GPL2. Perhaps really early version had other licenses. The
>> libraries are released under LGPL, so you can use gcc to build closed
>> source applications.
>
> Does this mean that it's possible to use gcc to build closed source
> applications, regardless of the version of gcc?
Yes.
> The reason why I asked about license information is that I want to use gcc
> to build application whose source I want to keep closed, and I thought that
> gcc was protected under different kind of license depending on its version.
> For instance, 3.x is protected under LGPL, and 4.x is protected under GPL,
> etc.
That is incorrect. gcc has always been under the plain GPL. It has
always been possible to use gcc to build proprietary applications.
Of course gcc is only a compiler, and is only one part of what you need
to build an application. glibc, for example, is under the LGPL.
Ian