On 5 July 2017 at 02:28, Jeremy Vincent Yu wrote: > Under the GPL3 runtime exception,am I allowed to subclass parts of the > standard c++ library(e.g.std::vector) for use in my non-GPL program?What > about instantiating objects of classes in the standard c++ library(e.g. > std::string) in my own classes? > Nobody on this list is going to give you legal advice, but I will say that the exception would be useless if you couldn't use std::string in your own classes, so I consider this a rather silly question. As the rationale at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1-faq.html says: As long as you use an Eligible Compilation Process, then you have permission to take the Target Code that GCC generates and propagate it “under terms of your choice.”
