[v3] Re: libstdc++ license

Jason Merrill jason_merrill@redhat.com
Fri Jun 22 13:01:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:

> Ah... heh heh... they were also illegal, or at least in very poor taste.

> Many of the files were already under SGI's and HP's copyright.  Can't
> change those.

Well, we can.  The HP/SGI license does not preclude us from putting our
modified versions under the GPL any more than it precludes people from
using the STL in non-free code.

I agree that we probably don't want to do so, but we could.

Jason



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