Author: Sven Reichard
Date: 05:23:52 07/04/02
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On July 03, 2002 at 18:24:04, Ralf Elvsén wrote: >On July 03, 2002 at 13:52:36, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On July 02, 2002 at 17:01:05, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On July 02, 2002 at 16:16:49, Christophe Theron wrote: >>> >>I still do not know if by compiling Tiger with GCC, which is GPL, I am forced to >>release the source code together with the binaries. >> >>I have read the GPL carefully, and this point is unclear. > >As far as I understand, the GNU C-library is released under the >GNU Lesser General Public License, which is not the same thing. >Read more at www.gnu.org. You certainly have no problems at all publishing a compiled version which is dynamically linked to glibc. If glibc is LGPL (which I also think it is) you could even link it statically and sell it - not that you get any ideas here :) GPL certainly doesn't cover the result of the compilation. Sven. >
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