[ut3] Official release date

[Ian Hastie]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:18:15 -0200
Thomaz de Oliveira dos Reis <thor27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Only in UT3-linux-server-betademo/Binaries: libgcc_s.so.1
> Only in UT3-linux-server-betademo/Binaries: libstdc++.so.6
> 
> Those are not GPL, they are LGPL. And they are fine with closed
> source software.

Actually they're not.  Both of them are GPL.

In the case of libgcc there is an exception for linking code, as
specificed in gcc/libgcc2.c as follows.

> In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the
> Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited permission to link the
> compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs,
> and to distribute those combinations without any restriction coming
> from the use of this file.  (The General Public License restrictions
> do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of
> the file, and distribution when not linked into a combine
> executable.)

libstdc++ has a similar runtime exception as detailed here

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/bk01pt01ch01s02.html

-- 
Ian.