But before we can roll out this compiler, we need to have some written
statement from FSF that says it's legally safe to link with these
libraries even with those problematic files. Who should I contact for
such a statement?
Your attorney. The FSF would have absolutely no reason t
Mike Stump wrote:
On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:28 PM, xiaoyi wang wrote:
In order to make sure that our proprietary code is not exposed to GPL
restrictions by using gcc,
Thanks for the audit. I'm getting the feeling that we should introduce
features into the files and give hard compilation errors w
On Jun 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, xiaoyi wang wrote:
Since we are on a very tight schedule to migrate to
gcc4.1.0, we cannot wait until gcc4.2 to be released.
But before we can roll out this compiler, we need to
have some written statement from FSF that says it's
legally safe to link with these librari
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:28:38PM -0700, xiaoyi wang wrote:
> Here are the problematic files I found that only have
> GPL without exception clauses in gcc4.1.0:
For some of those files, it's intentional: libbfd is only
for use by GPL software (as/ld) and is not for general use.
They are not link
Mike,
Thank you for your reply. I will file a PR shortly.
Since we are on a very tight schedule to migrate to
gcc4.1.0, we cannot wait until gcc4.2 to be released.
But before we can roll out this compiler, we need to
have some written statement from FSF that says it's
legally safe to link with t
On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:28 PM, xiaoyi wang wrote:
In order to make sure that our proprietary code is not exposed to
GPL restrictions by using gcc,
Thanks for the audit. I'm getting the feeling that we should
introduce features into the files and give hard compilation errors
when the rules a
Hi,
I got a question regarding GPL while migrating our
code to gcc4.1.0. In order to make sure that our
proprietary code is not exposed to GPL restrictions by
using gcc, I run my scripts to check every source file
and included header files that are built into gcc
essential libraries such as libgc
