libgcc license

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun  3, 2004, "Sampath Peechu" <speechu@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Could someone please tell me under which license libgcc comes : GPL or
> LGPL ?

> I would think that it is GPL but I wanted to clarify.

GPL + the runtime exception (from gcc/libgcc2.c):

GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.

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.)

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