Xref: news-dnh.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:2635 Path: news-dnh.mv.net!mv!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.bnl.gov!grmnntp.grump.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!decwrl!waikato!comp.vuw.ac.nz!tao.sans.vuw.ac.nz!empty From: empty AT sans DOT vuw DOT ac DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Stupid legal question - selling compiled programs? Date: 14 Oct 1995 00:43:56 GMT Organization: SANS, Student Access Network System Lines: 13 References: Nntp-Posting-Host: tao.sans.vuw.ac.nz To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Dj-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Ken Greenberg (ken AT rahul DOT net) wrote: : The output of GCC itself is not a problem; you can pretty much do what : you want with it. The problem is the libraries. These are covered by the : GNU library license, not the GPL. Assuming your program links in the Not all the libraries are covered by this liscence. If I remember right the libc.a library was not in v1.12m4, and it definitely is not in v2.0. The libraries that you have to be careful about in v2.0 are the c++ libraries (of which there are two, under different liscences). It is very easy to write a program that doesn't require the GNU Library Liscence to be satisfied. Malcolm