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Re: LPGL (was "GCC2 merging")
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: LPGL (was "GCC2 merging")
- From: joel at OARcorp dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:01:03 -0500 (CDT)
- cc: James Mansion <james at westongold dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com, gcc2 at cygnus dot com
On 15 Oct 1998, Jason Merrill wrote:
> >>>>> James Mansion <james@westongold.com> writes:
> I would like to see a variant of the LGPL which does not place any
> requirements on a "work that uses the Library". I want to protect the
> library itself, but have the legal requirements on a program that uses the
> library be the same as on a program that is compiled with gcc; namely,
> none. This is necessary for the C++ standard library, to make g++ a viable
> alternative to proprietary compilers. This is currently achieved by using
> the libgcc exception to the GPL, but I would rather have an LGPL-based
> license so that users are not required to use gcc.
This is a desirable thing which I call the Run-Time GPL. It has
essentially already been used on libgcc, the GNAT run-time. the GUILE
run-time (unsure of this one), and RTEMS.
--joel