Matthias Klose wrote:
why do you think it's derivative work? It's IMO clear, that libffi
comes with it's own license (fastjar as well). sure you can build
libffi without building gcc:
cd libffi; ./configure; make
I don't see any RC bug here.
It's not as simple, unfortunately. The following does not work: $ apt-get source libffi2 $ cd gcc-3.3-3.3.2ds4/ $ tar -xjvf gcc-3.3.2.tar.bz2 gcc-3.3.2/libffi $ cd gcc-3.3.2/libffi/ $ ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for Cygwin environment... no checking for mingw32 environment... no configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in ../.. ./../.. $ So, there are build dependencies on code outside of gcc-3.3.2/libffi/. The libffi license only applies to files within this directory, if am not mistaken. Regards, Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/