Question about GCC license for commercial use

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:49:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, jwakely.gcc@gmail.com, qifan.zhou@xpeedic.com
> From: kenner@adacore.com (Richard Kenner)
> 
> > Not if we are talking about Windows binaries intended to be used by
> > people who don't have GCC installed.  (The OP asked about MinGW, which
> > is why I bring up this case.)  These DLLs are part of the MinGW GCC
> > installation, but do not come with the OS OOTB.
> 
> But then what the OP could do is to distribute both his executable
> and MinGW ("mere aggregation" doesn't trigger the GPL).

They could, yes.  Of course, this will make the distribution much
larger and less convenient to install.