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Re: If my program is compiled under XCode can I sell it without distributing the source...
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Re: If my program is compiled under XCode can I sell it without distributing the source...


  • Subject: Re: If my program is compiled under XCode can I sell it without distributing the source...
  • From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:17:49 +0000

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:56:33 -0600, Brendan Younger <email@hidden> wrote:
> Just to clarify even further: the GPL on prohibits *linking* against
> non-GPL'd code (thereby making it behave like an infectious disease,
> but hey, I don't want to get into ideological discussions right now).
> You can use compiled GPL code for whatever purpose you want, even to
> compile closed-source applications.

Any runtime libraries supplied with GCC also have an exception in them
saying that you can link them in to a binary compiled with gcc without
the viral clause applying, too. Or at least something along those
lines :)

 -- Finlay
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