libgccjit licensing question

David Malcolm dmalcolm@redhat.com
Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2017


On Thu, 2017-08-10 at 20:13 +0200, Timur Kristóf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is libgccjit part of the GCC Runtime Library Exception?
> Can I use libgccjit in a non-GPL (for example, MIT or Apache
> licensed)
> project (without turning that project into GPL)? Can the authors of
> proprietary software use it?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your answers!
> 
> Best regards,
> Timur
> 
> ps. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find any
> definitive answers.

I'm the author and maintainer of libgccjit, but AFAIK the FSF holds the
copyright on it.

I'm not sure of the answers to your questions; I've emailed requesting
clarification of this.


I'm not a lawyer, so please don't consider any of this legal advice;
sorry that I can't be more helpful at this point.

Dave



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