On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:36:19PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> Maybe some of your are aware of MyGCC http://mygcc.free.fr/ which
> seems to be an extended GCC to add some kind of static analysis.
> 
> I'm quite surprised that the mygcc page gives x86/linux binaries, but
> no source tarball of their compiler (this seems to me against the
> spirit of the GPL licence, but I am not a lawyer).

Not just the spirit; the GPL requires that full sources be made available,
not just a patch (alternatively, a written offer to provide full source
can be provided with the binary, but one or the other is required).
However, I can't tell if there is a violation, since I haven't downloaded
the tarball and looked for written offers, and it appears that if there is
a violation, it is a well-intentioned error.  This is the kind of thing
that the FSF usually resolves quietly and amicably.


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