Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Tue Jan 9 10:06:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Widenius <monty@mysql.com> writes:

    Michael> Sorry, but shouldn't it be the other way around?

The GPL does not contain any notion of "direction".  The distribution
of a program comprising GPL'd code linked with code that does not
satisfy certain properties laid out in the GPL is not permitted.

    Michael> I am very interested in your reasoning about this; Any
    Michael> change you can point me out to the information/person on
    Michael> which you base your statement?

Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.org) is the unquestioned expert on the GPL.
His voice definitely carries more weight than mine; in this case,
however, I was acting under his direct instructions.

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