From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 13 22:16:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22898 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlogic.com.au [203.36.2.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22886 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:16:49 GMT (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.7) id PAA02271; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 15:15:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199804140515.PAA02271@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Question about licence for GCC runtime ribraries containing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3532ED71.BE06E7F7@internetway.or.jp> from Katsuhiko Imahara at "Apr 14, 98 02:00:33 pm" To: tug@internetway.or.jp (Katsuhiko Imahara) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 15:15:25 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Katsuhiko Imahara wrote: > We would destribute our program executable that contains some portions > of scrt0.o, libc.a and libgcc.a in FreeBSD. The executable is linked > with those object or archive files in /usr/lib by GCC. The GCC is > containing in FreeBSD. I understand that scrt.o and libc.a covered under > BSD licence and not by the LGPL. I am not sure of the genesis of libgcc, > though. libgcc is LGPL'd. It comes with gcc. > I have question, Can we distribute the linked executable as such ? > Is there no restrictions on that ? > Is the executable covered under LGPL or GPL ? > Please give me your opinion. The executable is not covered by either LGPL or GPL. If you made modifications to any of the LGPL'd code, those modifications are covered by the LGPL. If you just linked against the LGPL'd objects, there are no restrictions on your code. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message