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Weblog:   Is Linksys shirking the GPL? (Maybe not.)
Subject:   GPL and GCC
Date:   2003-07-31 06:50:38
From:   anonymous2
You asked
"If Broadcom is using a modified GCC for their reference design, and are making this available to their developers, aren't they bound by the GPL to make the source code to those modifications available as well?"


No,the are not bound at all to release any changes to the gpl that the use internally, only if the release the binaries of that modified GCC do they have to publish the Source.


They can use thier own copy of the compiler to produce all the binaries that they want. That is why you can gpl source code that can only be compiled by a non-free compiler.


mike