[haiku] Re: licensing concerns
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:10:06 +0200 CEST
"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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