Copyright question: libgcc GPL exceptions

John Marshall jmarshall@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Mar 22 08:16:00 GMT 2005


Mike Stump wrote:
> The canonical form can be found in gcc/libgcc2.c:
>
> [...] (The General Public License restrictions
> do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of
> the file, and distribution when not linked into a combine
> executable.)

(Been wondering about this for a while...)  Possibly this is one of 
those North American dialect things, but to this (non-American) English 
speaker this canonical form appears to contain a typo.

"[...] when not linked into a combined executable", surely?

    John



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