For the quick answer:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
No, merely using the GCC compiler doesn't make your program a "covered work".
If you are statically linking a library covered by the GPL license, your
program constitutes a "covered work" under the terms of the GPL, unless the
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> This is a general question, not(?) completely off topic.
> I have never quite understood the GPL type license
> in the following sense: I write my own c++ software; I compile
> it using an open source deal like djgpp;
> if I then distribute the compiled exe, am I legally obliged to also
> distrib
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, kurt godel wrote:
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:25:07 -0400
> From: kurt godel
> Reply-To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Freedos-user] The GPL license.
>
> This is a general question, not(?) co
kurt godel wrote:
> compiled on a GPL system?. If so, is this because the GPL libraries are
> statically linked into the exe?.
Would be true if the libraries are GPL, but they are LGPL (see copying.dj).
> Am I in any case required to include the source code that came with the
> djgpp distro?.
This is a general question, not(?) completely off topic. I have never quite
understood the GPL type license
in the following sense: I write my own c++ software; I compile it using an
open source deal like djgpp;
if I then distribute the compiled exe, am I legally obliged to also
distribute(i.e. my)
