Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:32:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Stupid legal question - selling compiled programs?
To: ken AT rahul DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>> I have read all the 'copying' readme files for the GCC compilers. What I 
>> want to know is this. Can I sell a compiled program I wrote in C and 
>> compiled using GCC?
>> 
>
>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

Only libgpl.a and libgpp.a.  The other libraries which come with DJGPP
(including libc.a, libm.a, and libiostr.a) have no such restriction.

>run-time libraries (i.e., if you have not written your own RTL from
>scratch), you need to follow the terms of this license. As I read it,
>you are required to make your program available in relocatable (.O) form
>in addition to the executable (.EXE) form. This allows end-users to
>modify the library and relink to your relocatable objects.

AFAIK, that is correct --- _for programs which use LGPLed libraries_.

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