Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  9, 2001, Michael Widenius <monty@mysql.com> wrote:

> 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!

The GNU GPL requires that, if any component of an application is
licensed under its terms, the application can only be distributed
under the terms of the GNU GPL, with an exception granted to
components that are part of the operating system.

It doesn't matter if it's a GPLed program being linked with a non-GPL
library, or a non-GPLed program being linked with a GPLed library.  If
they're linked together, you can only distribute the results under the
terms of the GNU GPL.

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