[LLVMdev] GPL licensing issues or can GCC be used with llvm for a commercial application?

Matthijs Kooijman matthijs at stdin.nl
Wed May 14 02:56:33 PDT 2008


Hi,

> If you distribute the GPLed library and the proprietary application
> separately, and make sure that they are linked at installation time, the
> link step creates a derived work indeed but that's inconsequential
> because it isn't redistributed.
Interestingly enough, you need a linker at the target system to do that. And
guess what this discussion started at :-p

Gr.

Matthijs
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