Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
Posted Jan 29, 2014 23:54 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft by khim
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You see, libstdc++ uses straight GPLv3 (not LGPL!)This is factually incorrect. If libstdc++ used either license it would be nearly impossible to compile non-GPL C++ programs, because a lot of libstdc++ is implemented in header files.
See any file at all in libstdc++, and the Runtime Library Exception.
A license with this exception is GPL- and LGPL- and for that matter BSD-compatible, but it's not the GPL any more.