Question about GCC license for commercial use

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:28:36 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, jwakely.gcc@gmail.com, qifan.zhou@xpeedic.com
> From: kenner@adacore.com (Richard Kenner)
> 
> > That's not what RMS told me when I asked him some time ago.  He said
> > that, since libgcc DLL and libstdc++ DLL are basically separate files
> > and thus separate builds of the libraries, the run-time exception you
> > pointed to is not applicable to them.  Quoting his response back then:
> > 
> >   There is nothing in this exception that would permit distribution
> >   of libgcc itself -- as a separate file -- other than under the GPL.
> 
> Yes, but the discussion wasn't about "as a separate file", but as a file
> that's part of the distribution of another program.

A shared library is always a separate file.