> Note that nobody can give you definitive answers to questions like this
> since they haven't been litigated. So any answer is an "educated guess".
Yes. I understand I cannot get definitive answers for license interpretation.
> My view is that it's both, depending on the context. Remember that
Thank you for your reply.
> The exception applies to the application code, not to libgcc_s.so,
> libstdc++.so etc.
I noticed my prerequisite might be wrong.
I thought that the shared runtime libraries are also included in the
"work of Target Code formed by combining the Runtime Library with
Indep
On 27 Feb 2019, at 18:37, Richard Kenner wrote:
>
> 1) Whether executing a program is considered making a copy under
> copyright law.
I had a look through some of the published judgements, and it's clear that in
the US at least copying into RAM (for whatever purpose, and provided the copy
has
> That depends on your local copyright law. Some, like the US, have
> language saying that copies necessary for usual operation are *not*
> covered under copyright.
I'm refering to US law. Where, precisely, is the language you are
referring to? Note that there are two separate issues:
(1) Wheth
On 2/27/19 6:20 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
> That's actually not extreme, but pretty accepted. And yes, that has
> been litigated. And you can see that in the GPL in the definition of
> "propagate": the exclusion of executing it on a computer wouldn't be
> necessary if that weren't considered a co
> Remember that, from the perspective of copyright law, executing a
> program is making a "copy"
> of that program.
>
> Has that (rather extreme) view been litigated?
That's actually not extreme, but pretty accepted. And yes, that has
been litigated. And you can see that in the G
On 27 Feb 2019, at 12:41, Richard Kenner wrote:
>
> Remember that, from the perspective of copyright law, executing a program is
> making a "copy"
> of that program.
Has that (rather extreme) view been litigated?
> I have questions about the GCC Runtime Library Exception.
Note that nobody can give you definitive answers to questions like this
since they haven't been litigated. So any answer is an "educated guess".
Having said that ...
> When an equipment vendor distributes an update of shared gcc runtime
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 09:06, wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have questions about the GCC Runtime Library Exception.
>
> When an equipment vendor distributes an update of shared gcc runtime
> libraries (e.g. libgcc_s.so, libstdc++.so) to the shipped equipment
> and when the equipment has applications whi
Hello,
I have questions about the GCC Runtime Library Exception.
When an equipment vendor distributes an update of shared gcc runtime
libraries (e.g. libgcc_s.so, libstdc++.so) to the shipped equipment
and when the equipment has applications which are dynamically linked to
older release of the sh
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