DJ Delorie wrote:
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".
Yes, it is; because cross-compilers are unusual.
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".
True. the GPLv2 reads: "major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs". Cross-compiler is not a component of the operating system on which the executable runs. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user