Re: Including free compiler in a comercial software

2008-10-31 Thread David Edelsohn
Mike, Cristian is asking for help understanding the GPL, not quoting the GPL, which he could read himself in the GCC sources. Cristian The answer to your question depends on what you mean by "include GCC in my program." You describe creating both a framework of classes, header files and librari

Re: Including free compiler in a comercial software

2008-10-30 Thread MICHAEL R. MEISSNER
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 20:15 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote: > Michael Meissner wrote: > > > If you are including GCC in your program, your program needs to be licensed > > such to allow this (typically gplv3). If you are just providing the > > compiler > > as a separate package without modifications,

Re: Including free compiler in a comercial software

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Dewar
Michael Meissner wrote: If you are including GCC in your program, your program needs to be licensed such to allow this (typically gplv3). If you are just providing the compiler as a separate package without modifications, then this is a much simpler matter (this is allowed under section 4 of th

Re: Including free compiler in a comercial software

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Meissner
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:09:28PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote: > Cristian Harja wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm a young developer, with very strong knowledge about programming, > >especially C++. I am working to one of my greatest projects. I'm building > >up a framework that can create native Win32 a

Re: Including free compiler in a comercial software

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Dewar
Cristian Harja wrote: Hello, I'm a young developer, with very strong knowledge about programming, especially C++. I am working to one of my greatest projects. I'm building up a framework that can create native Win32 applications, console applications, and provides intelligent and efficient cl

Including free compiler in a comercial software

2008-10-30 Thread Cristian Harja
Hello, I'm a young developer, with very strong knowledge about programming, especially C++. I am working to one of my greatest projects. I'm building up a framework that can create native Win32 applications, console applications, and provides intelligent and efficient classes to manage differe