Re: gEDA-user: GPLv3 question

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have: http://gpl-violations.org/faq/sourcecode-faq.html.
> And yes, Harald Welte has made some vendors to distribute
> their sources with entire toolchain.

Unusual, since the "compiler..." part of the GPL was specifically
added for DJGPP, which is not "normally distributed... with the
operating system".

Even Microsoft's compiler is not normally distributed with the
operating system.  The "..." removes too many words and changes the
meaning of that clause.

IMHO that part of the GPL means that if you use, for example, libc
from a standard compiler, you need not include libc in your source
set, unless you include the whole compiler too (i.e. a modified
compiler/libc).  The key wording is "normally distributed with the
major components", not "normally distributed with the operating
system".


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