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From: mwilliam AT cs DOT utk DOT edu (Myles Barrett Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Stupid legal question - selling compiled programs?
Date: 10 Oct 1995 15:39:38 -0400
Organization: CS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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>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 use of GCC to compile a program places no restrictions on the
distribution of that program.

If you use the GNU C library to compile it (and with DJGPP, you do),
you may sell it, but you must satisfy one of the following
requirements specified in the GNU Library General Public License
(LGPL)

a.  Accompany the program with complete source code for the library,
    and object code for your program (in an object format of your
    choice, and a copy of the GNU LGPL;
b.  Offer (in writing) to provide the above materials at a charge
    not greater than the cost of distributing the materials; or
c.  Distribute your program without the above materials, under
    a license that gives the user explicity permission to 'hack'
    the compiled program for personal use.

See the LGPL (The filename is COPYING.LIB) for details.

Myles Williams		"When you see me again, it won't be me."