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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
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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

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