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Re: RFA: Add GCC Runtime Library Exception to include/plugin-api.h
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:43:25 -0800
- Subject: Re: RFA: Add GCC Runtime Library Exception to include/plugin-api.h
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:23 PM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:03 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> include/plugin-api.h defines an ABI between linker and compiler,
>>>> which can be used to implement linker plug-in by any compilers.
>>>> I'd like to add GCC Runtime Library Exception to include/plugin-api.h
>>>> so that the linker plug-in can have non-GPL licenses.
>>>
>>> This is OK with me.
>>>
>>> -cary
>>
>> Here is a patch. OK for trunk?
>
> You have not explained why this actually is needed and only the FSF
> can agree to license changes.
In fact I think all linker plugins needs to be GPLv3 compatible
because other ld.bfd and ld.gold would have a license violation.
This is the same story as a GCC plugin too.
Thanks,
Andrew
>
> - David