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GCC files with GPL license in glibc
- From: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich dot Weigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:27:38 +0200
- Subject: GCC files with GPL license in glibc
Hello,
we've noticed that the glibc source tree contains two files copied from
GCC,
which are licensed under the GPL (i.e. not LGPL and not GPL + special
exception) according to the file header.
Within the GCC source tree, these files have now been converted to GPL +
exception to avoid problems for non-GPL applications linking against
libgcc. (It is my understanding that the intention had been to use GPL
+ exception from the start, and the pure GPL was simply an oversight.)
Should this license change/clarification be applied to the glibc copies
as well?
The files in question:
sysdeps/generic/unwind-dw2.c
sysdeps/generic/unwind-pe.h
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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