On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 11:14 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > That said, I think that to be fair, we need to distinguish between > "using" in the sense of what GCC is doing - a tool outside the scope > of effort of the project enabling some behavior in a standard and non- > intrusive way (just like we don't care about the license of the OS we > run on), and "using" in the sense of developers of a project making a > conscious decision to design and implement software with a dependency.
This is wrong thinking. You aren't simply "using" the libgcc routines, as you would OS resources. You are linking your application to the libgcc library and redistributing the resulting combined binary. This is precisely what the license talks about and enables. Whether or not you make a distinction between this kind of GPL+exception usage and libstdc++ or GNU Classpath usage hardly matters, since the licenses themselves don't make a distinction. AG
