Sam Hartman wrote:
> However, building a GPLed work with GCC requires you to distribute all
> the sources necessary to build it.
The GPL explicitly says this is not necessary:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.
i.e. no need to distribute the compiler.
Alan DeKok.
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