On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:50:30PM -0400, Brett Smith wrote: > Which is why the GPL leaves it up to the particular operating system in > question. Note again: "the source code distributed need not include > anything that is normally distributed... with the major components... of > the operating system *on which the executable runs*." (Emphasis mine, of > course.) As a compiler is not typically distributed with Windows, no > compiler -- be it Borland, or gcc, or whatever -- falls under this > exception for Windows programs.
Note that it says "major components .. of the operating system ..". The question, I suppose, is whether the libraries themselves qualify as such. Certainly, those which come with VC++ would qualify. What's ambiguous is whether Borland's would qualify. [Emphasizing " on which the executable runs" merely excludes operating systems where the executable doesn't run. I don't see that it adds anything else to this issue.] -- Raul
