🚀 go-pugleaf

Nelson Minar wrote:
> 
> I'm helping someone who wants to make a Linux version of a big C++
> program available. They are happy to distribute the executable under
> relatively reasonable terms, but will not distribute the source and
> are generally skittish about legal issues.
> 
> We are not clear on the licensing requirements of g++. In particular,
> we're not sure what libraries might be linked into their code by g++
> and what the terms on those libraries are. In general I understand the
> LGPL and GPL - I just don't quite know what all is in g++.
> 
> Their intention is to only use iostream - no STL, nothing from libg++.
> I checked the licensing on libio in libstdc++ and it looks like it has
> no requirements on use:
> 
>     As a special exception, if you link this library with files
>     compiled with a GNU compiler to produce an executable, this does not cause
>     the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License.

What happens if only some of the files were compiled with a GNU
compiler? For example, if the program uses a comercial library which
is not given in source form, and was compiled with a proprietary
compiler?