[haiku] Re: licensing concerns

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't know the exact details but newer versions of gcc have 
> > changed  
> > to gpl v3, this in itself is not a problem but as I understand it 
> > the  
> > c lib may also have changed license.  If so, as soon as you link to 
> > it your app becomes gpl v3.
> glibc always had a special provision for apps that prevented it, no 
> reason they would change this, or it would mean the few closed app 
> vendors who support linux would get out of it.
> 
> It might be a good reason to look at the BSD libc patch again :D

Which doesn't have anything to do with this anyway; GCC only brings its 
own C++ support libs, nothing libc related.

Bye,
   Axel.

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