a fork of gcc is sold for $26k?

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Jonathan Wakely wrote:

> On 16 June 2012 12:01, Arch hvv wrote:
> > Have anybody inspected it? Is GPL violated in this case or not (e.g.
> > do they provide all patches they've made to gcc)?
> 
> If it's based on llvm-gcc then it only uses GCC as the front-end so
> there may be no reason to patch GCC.

In case they link-edit against GCC frontend (or backend, or just generally 
GPL protected) files and distribute the resulting binary they still must 
provide their own code linking against those under a GPL compatible 
license.  I don't know of they do the former (or use llvm plugins), and if 
so, if they do the latter.  The FSF might want to know, though.


Ciao,
Michael.