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+<TITLE>CeGCC License<TITLE>
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+<BODY>
+<img src="../images/banner1.png" alt="CeGCC cross compiler for
PocketPC">
+<H1>CeGCC License</H1>
+<p>
+The licensing of free software products is not an easy issue.
+Aggregated products like cegcc are even more complicated to describe
accurately.
+<p>
+To understand all this, you'll need to know about the different types
of material involved,
+and about the way their licenses work.
+The collection of all that is the CeGCC licensing.
+<p>
+I see three types of material :
+<ul>
+ <li>software that is used to develop, but that doesn't itself
get distributed with the application being developped
+ <li>software that ends up in the application being developed
+ <li>documentation
+</ul>
+<p>
+CeGCC is an aggregation of several free software products,
+and you'll see that they come with different licenses.
+A well known license is the GNU Public License (also known as GPL),
+it is often described as <i>viral</i>,
+meaning that it tends to infect software.
+<p>
+It is important to understand that only the software in the first
bullet above
+carries such licenses.
+Because of the fact that this software never ends up in the application
being developped,
+the viral aspect doesn't apply.
+<p>
+The only other thing you basically need to know is that the licenses
for each original piece
+of software from which cegcc is aggregated still apply.
+All the software added specifically by the cegcc project authors
carries the most liberal
+license we can apply; see the source files themselves.
+<p>
+If this all looks very confusing,
+maybe we can convince you by showing that projects like
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc";>gcc</a>
+also follow this approach.
+Here is an example from the GCC documentation :
+<pre>
+The GNU Compiler Collection is free software. See the file COPYING for
+copying permission. The manuals, and some of the runtime libraries, are
+under different terms; see the individual source files for details.
+</pre>
+<p>
+<H2>Links about licensing</H2>
+<ul>
+ <li><A
HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation";>
+ Aggregation</a>
+ <li><a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean";>
+ Compatible with GPL</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html";>GPL
FAQ</a>
+</ul>
+</BODY>
+</HTML>Property changes on: license.html ___________________________________________________________________ Name: svn:eol-style + native -- Danny Backx ; danny.backx - at - scarlet.be ; http://danny.backx.info
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