Guillaume Cartier wrote:
Hi everyone,
I was wondering. As Gambit uses GCC, isn't Gambit's licensing bound to be GPL or at least LGPL?
Also, isn't anyone using Gambit, as Gambit indirectly uses GCC bound to be GPL too?
Any comments on these issues, really appreciated. The more I look into Open Source licensing, the more confused I get.
Guillaume Cartier
You might want to take at the following links. gcc is unusual in that it has a specific linking/runtime exclusion attached to the GPL. Otherwise, all of the *BSD projects would have to dump it and create a new compiler. That would be *BAD*.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-06/msg01276.html
-a