On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez <mcalh...@macports.org > wrote:
> > > gcc 5.1 libstdc++ is GPL3 and poses significant license issues with > respect to distributing binaries, among others. > Again, there may be something important I am missing, but isn’t there a > GCC runtime library exceptions that ameliorates this concern > (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html)? Apple's lawyers don't think so, so you cannot redistribute anything combining Apple libraries with it. (Since you can't avoid libSystem, this means you cannot redistribute binaries.) It's not a question of what makes sense to you, it's not a question of what would be convenient. Apple called the shots and we are forced to adapt. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
