Copyright question: libgcc GPL exceptions

[Zack Weinberg]

John Marshall <jmarshall@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> 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?

I think you are right, but changes to this wording need to be run by
the FSF.

zw