***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] Fwd: DLL sorcery with gcc and gfortran

["Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaron77thyme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis Wassel wrote:

> As for the static linkage: I could not find any comprehensible statement 
> about the licensing of libgfortran on the gcc website

I cannot answer this authoritatively, but the licensing is intended to 
be "GPL+exception," which is intended to permit static linking.  See the 
text at the top of a source file, such as 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libgfortran/intrinsics/associated.c?revision=133684&view=markup> 
for the exact wording.

Unfortunately, I cannot be definitive because the FSF is deliberately 
vague in these matters.  The usual advice is to pay a cyberlaw attorney 
a very large retainer and sacrifice a gnu to the free software gods in 
the form of a sizable donation to the FSF.

By the way, the copyright holder of libgfortran is the FSF, so they 
would be the people who would be suing you if you did something they 
didn't like.  If you have specific concerns, you should contact them. 
They are good about responding, but in my experience, their response is 
not always unhelpful.

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