Re: gEDA-user: GPLv3 question

2010-10-06 Thread Anthony Green
On 10/6/2010 7:45 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: But read the text of the exception and try to come to that same conclusion when you're talking about libgcc.so or libstdc++.so. Wouldn't the "normally supplied..." exception in the GPL kick in anyway? Maybe for your app, but not for libgcc.so itself,

Re: gEDA-user: GPLv3 question

2010-10-06 Thread Anthony Green
On 10/6/2010 3:56 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > And if you don't use a GPL library, just the GPL compiler, your > output can be sold, distributed without any source code. Only because GCC's runtime libraries are specifically licensed to allow that. I wish this was obviously true, but it is not.

Re: gEDA-user: GPLv3 question

2010-10-06 Thread Anthony Green
On 10/6/2010 6:30 PM, asom...@gmail.com wrote: No. GPLv3 says that it must be _possible_ for the user to update his GPLed code, but it need not be easy. It says that if you, the copyright holder, can do it, then the end user must be able to do it. Not that it must be possible. But if it is