[gambit-list] Gambit Licensing
Andrew Lentvorski
bsder at allcaps.org
Thu Oct 26 19:40:20 EDT 2006
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
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