On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 11:45:49AM -0400, Jason Merrill wrote:
> The copyright troll risk is much, much lower for GCC than for Linux.
> First, because GPL3 specifically addresses the over-strict automatic
> termination rules in GPL2 that copyright trolls leverage. And also because
> there are many fewer redistributors of GCC, and they are in the business of
> distributing software. If you are redistributing GCC, it's going to be in
> some sort of package format that is also a convenient medium for
> redistributing the source. If you aren't redistributing GCC, just using
> it, then the GPL places no restrictions on you anyway.
Yeah. From GCC one will typically just redistribute in the products
copyright trolls might target the libraries like libgcc, libstdc++ etc.,
and those have the GCC Runtime Library Exception.
Jakub
