[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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