2012/10/26 Kai Tietz <[email protected]>
> Yes, you have to take care to provide a link to source-code or the
> source itself of the gcc libraries with runtime-exception you are
> using. It is not enough to point to somebody else, which might
> provide the sources.
> Btw this is the cause why mingw-w64 always does binary and
> source-package releases of toolchain.
> I admit that not all people are aware of that, but it is the
> interpretation of the GPL with runtime-exception, which shared among
> most involved people. I spoke about this with RMS at Prague and he
> agreed to this understanding of the GPL runtime-exception license.
> I see here much violations even on some software provided as
> binary-only packages on Linux. Windows developers aren't they only one
> misinterpreting the runtime-license of gcc here.
>
OK. But GCC pulling down its sources is highly unlikely, and if that
happens, I'm quite sure someone will have remembered to back it up
somewhere. FWIW, all my toolchains' sources are available on SF.net.
I also don't think a static runtime link changes any of this, TDM. From the
same FAQ as before:
"neither the GPL nor the GCC Runtime Library Exception distinguish between
static linking, dynamic linking, and other methods for combining code in
their conditions"
So I doubt your forced static runtime linking affects any of this.
Cheers,
Ruben
>
> Kai
>
> PS: IANAL but able to ask
>
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