Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

Nick Ing-Simmons nik@tiuk.ti.com
Tue Jan 9 05:50:00 GMT 2001


<dewar@gnat.com> writes:
>>Of what I understand of GPL, it's ok to link a GPL program with ANY
>>library.  If that would be true, you could not link a GPL program with
>>any commercial toolkit and there is clearly many such programs around!
>
>This is incorrect, a program aggregated by linking a GPL program with
>another library which is NOT part of the operating environment cannot

You last quote said "operating system" - which, while vague, most programmers
would have a reasonable idea what is meant.

But _anything_ could be considered part of the "operating environment" ...

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.



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