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+ <H1>[Nel] Using GCC? -- was: GPL specifics</H1>
+ <B>Vincent Archer</B>
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+ <I>Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:41:33 +0100</I>
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+<PRE>According to Tony Hoyt:
+&gt;<i> Okay well I hate to go slightly off topic here but this is a question
+</I>&gt;<i> that I need to ask since we're talking about all GPL, LGPL, etc. Where
+</I>&gt;<i> does building an application with gcc fall into all of this? I write a
+</I>&gt;<i> program, build it with gcc or g++ and plan to sell it to other users.
+</I>&gt;<i> But, I don't want to distribute the source of the application. Can I
+</I>&gt;<i> still use gcc/g++? or am I forced to find an alternative compiler such
+</I>&gt;<i> as VisualC for windows or a unix specific compiler for unix variants?
+</I>
+Even though you *used* GCC to build the program, gcc *itself* is in no
+way present in the program you distribute. There's no portion of gcc
+source code or binary in your application. Thus, your program does not
+inherit the licensing from the gcc GPL license.
+
+The only think that gets bundled is the C library. And the C library
+(glibc) is covered by the LGPL, which specifically allows for that case
+(i.e. distributing a program that is linked with a GPL software, without
+ placing the GPL strictures on the program itself).
+
+The same thing would apply to a C grammar parser that was generated
+by bison (the GPL parser generation tool). Using bison to generate your
+C source does not require you to put said source under the GPL: bison
+is not included in your program, only its output (hmmm, is the library
+required for bison LGPL? I think so, but can't remember)
+
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+ Vincent Archer Email: <A HREF="mailto:archer@frmug.org">archer@frmug.org</A>
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