David Kirkby <david.kirkby@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. All gcc versions between 2.x and 4.2 were under GPLv2. Before 2.x they were under GPLv1. I'm not sure off-hand of the exact value of x; it may be 0, that is, 2.0 may have been under GPLv2. GPLv2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPLv1: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-1.0.html Ian