2010/10/15 Hashimoto Yuya <hill_climb@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hello, > > I'm just searching for the license information for each version of the GNU gcc. > Referring to the following site http://directory.fsf.org/project/gcc/, I could > obtain the license information about the version 4.2.1 to 4.5.0, but couldn't > find any information about older versions, which I also need. > > Could you tell me what I should refer to, such as the complete list of the > license information that also includes for older version than 4.2.1? > > Regards, > > Yuya Hashimoto Download the versions and look in the source code. To the best of my knowledge, current versions are GPL3 and earlier ones GPL2. Perhaps really early version had other licenses. The libraries are released under LGPL, so you can use gcc to build closed source applications. I have some code I released under the GPL http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ which a book publisher wanted to include on a CD accompany a book, but they wanted me to sign a document saying they could do this. I pointed out that the license accompanying the code was GPL2 and so they could do so without my permission. But they still wanted a signature! I agreed to sign a bit of paper and send it back on the condition I got a free copy of the book! They agreed to that, so I gained a rather expensive academic text book. It strikes me as a bit strange. Dave
