Re: license information for gcc

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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


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