On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:53:40PM -0700, Florian Weimer wrote: > Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered that as an operating system vendor, > you are not allowed to distribute GPL version 2 programs if they are > compiled with GCC 4.4. The run-time library is GPL version 3 or > later, which is incompatible with GPL version 2, so it is not > permitted to link this with the GPLv2-only program and distribute the > result.
That's incorrect. The runtime library is GPLv3 or later, but with an *exception* that permits linking not only with GPLv2 programs, but also with proprietary programs. The relevant document is the GCC Runtime Library Exception.
