[PATCH 0/1] Build GDB as a C++ program by default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:59:24 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> CC: simon.marchi@ericsson.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > I don't see how linking statically removes the requirement to
> > provide access to sources.
> 
> It does, because there's a special clause for that in the L?GPL, whch
> only holds for static linking.

Or maybe I'm wrong and this clause is in the libgcc license, I no
longer remember.  But the exemption does exist, and it does cover only
static linking.