Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  9, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Note that GCC is merely a special case: it is a violation of the GPL
> to link *any* GPL'd program with the U/WIN support library.

I don't even know what U/WIN is but, AFAIK, the GNU GPL only covers
the *distribution* of GNU GPLed programs or libraries.  Linking with a
proprietary library is legal, as long as you don't redistribute the
result of the linking.

I understand the removing support from U/WIN is a form of making it
harder for someone to violate the GNU GPL, but I thought I'd point out
that anyone is free to take the patch you're about to remove, install
it in their own GCC source tree and build GCC for their own use.
Right?

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