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Re: program compiled with GCC


On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 16:23, Nuotio Mikko wrote:
> 
> I was building a game with SDL Library (LGPL) and I compiled it with
> gcc(GPL) (in linux) 
> 
> So if LGPL says that there has to be at least object code(of game)
> available, but if I compile it with gcc, does it  still mean I don't
> have to release source code of the game.

GCC has a special clause that object files generated by gcc are not to
be considered derivative works as per definition of the GPL.

(writing this from memory so I hope I got the terms right.)

greets from Zürich
-- vbi


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