Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Amos Shapira wrote:
Another one is CodeSynthesis XSD
(http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/xsd/), it's GPL so we we can't
link it with our proprietary code.
gcc is also GPL, and yet you can link the programs you compile with it
to your proprietary code.
hmpf... that's not a good example.
It is true that GCC output (the object and ELF files) are themselves not
derived work of GCC. However, to actually use them for something you
need to link (statically or otherwise) with libgcc.
Mind you, the produced programs are indeed not subect to the GPL - but
only because the FSF has made an explicit exception for libgcc.
See for example: http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/SharedLibgccLegal
I suspect for most real world cases there is some variant of "libgcc"
lurking about.
Gilad
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