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Re: cp/inc licensing
- To: rms at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: cp/inc licensing
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:05:59 -0600
- cc: wilson at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200005080347.VAA17752@wijiji.santafe.edu>you write:
> After looking at the situation, I think we should use these
> terms on libgcc*.c.
>
> 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 into combinations with other programs,
> and to distribute those combinations 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 a combine
> executable.)
>
> This combines the two paragraphs and should replace them both; it
> should be used not only in libgcc1.c but the other libgcc*.c files.
Thanks. Updated.
> I do not think we should go this far with the template files, though.
> For them, I think the exception should properly be somewhat more
> limited; it should preserve the present restriction to programs
> compiled with GCC.
I haven't changed any of the C++ template file copyrights.
jeff