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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: How Does gnu propigate
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Date: 23 Jan 90 02:27:48 GMT
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>
>A clear statement of the FSF's postion would be useful, but I haven't seen
>one.
>
>Regards,
>John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl
>

this has been stated many times. see back issues of gnu.misc.discuss.

the helper routines (alloca et al) in gnulib, gnulib2 and gnulib3 are
all public domain. This is stated very clearly somewhere in the
manual. Thus, all code you compile with gcc can be sold; code
interfacing to gcc can not (i.e. if you build a Modula compiler using
the GCC backend).

The G++ library, libg++, is not public domain, and copy restrictions
are associated with it.