Quoting Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopeziba...@gmail.com>:
2009/1/29 Joern Rennecke <amyl...@spamcop.net>:
Quoting Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org>:
Joern Rennecke wrote:
Quoting Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com>:
I'm not sure what your point is here. newlib is not under the GPL in
any case. It is not affected by the gcc runtime library license.
The old runtime library exception allowed you to distribute binaries that
both include pieces of the gcc runtime and arbitrary pieces of newlib,
without requiring the distribution to be under the terms of the GPL.
I.e. your could link non-GPL code against both the gcc runtime and newlib
and distribute it.
The new license does not allow this unless all parts included from newlib
are written in a high level language AND use the gcc runtime.
This doesn't make any sense to me. If a module X (including any part
of newlib) is not written in a high-level language, it doesn't need
compilation. So they are allowed to link GCC libraries.
That does not follow. There is no provision in the license to allow this.
If it does not
link with GCC libraries, it is not affected by the GCC's GPL. What is
the case that I am missing?
It is common to link code that requires both libgcc and newlib, where not
all used parts of newlib need libgcc.
It is not the parts of newlib that are affected, it is users that are
affected who want to link newlib which includes these parts - together
with libgcc and Independent Modules, and distribute the resulting
binaries under non-GPL terms. They will no longer be allowed to do
this with when they are using a single link step, as they are creating
a derived work for which they have no license to distribute, except
possibly the GPL.
It doesn't matter if you link incrementally or in a single step or
your code is ready for dynamic linking (the GPL does not differentiate
between static or dynamic linking for derived works), the only
important thing is what you end up propagating.
Yes, but you could propagate the partially linked work.
Under terms that allow yourself to propagate derived works that incorporate
other code.
