mr@ritd.co.uk (06/05/89)
Some of the recent comments on this list have made me a little edgy.
Could someone please try to answer the following:
I desire to use g++ for developing product within this company;
this might include material from libg++. If I supply any of this
product (in binary executable form), am I then obliged by the
FSF licence to make *all* my source available to any customers
(who will undoubtably be charged for the priviledge - this is a
commerical operation)? Or am I merely required to offer such
customers fair access to the source for g++/libg++? I could
probably cope with the latter; the former would kill GNU tools
stone dead.
Many thanks,
Martin Reed, Racal Imaging Systems Ltd
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My employer is not responsible for this communication.rms@AI.MIT.EDU (06/08/89)
I desire to use g++ for developing product within this company; this might include material from libg++... G++ and libg++ are separate programs, which are used independently. The rest of this question is predicated on the assumption that they are indistinguishable. It is therefore a poorly formulated question, which makes the issue seem more complicated than it is. If people wish for clarification, they must start by formulating their questions in terms which lead to simple answers. The only way to answer this question is to replace it with well-formulated questions. Those questions, and their answers, have been posted recently, so I won't repeat them. Besides which, questions about G++ do not belong on info-gcc. (Even questions about GCC are doubtful, since info-gcc is intended for announcements, not questions. But at least they are apropos.)