Licensing fixes for libgcc

[Jan Hubicka]

> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 14:33, David Turner wrote:
> >
> >>Then please add the exception there too:
> >
> >
> >I have applied this and your other license changes to the GCC 3.3 and
> >GCC 3.4 development branches.
> I wonder. do we really need the special exception for the 
> coverage-collecting
> source? Not having the exception would prevent people distributing a
> coverage-collecting executable under a non-GPL license. It would not affect
> non-coverage-collecting versions of their programs.

It would make sense to do so in case the company is interested how the
program behaves in customers environment.
In general, I think we should not make any restriction on GCC produced
executables so in general all the code linked into these should contain
the exception

Honza
> 
> Is that too subtle? (I can just see the FUD -- 'use gcov once and your 
> program
> becomes GPL infected')
> 
> nathan
> 
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