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Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial
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On 18 juin, 21:20, sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> [...]
> I couldn't find any overall policy statement at gcc.gnu.org, but it
> seems that the FSF are addressing this question as part of the GPL3
> changes: seehttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.htmlandhttp://www.g=
nu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1-faq.html.

The second link gives the definition of =93Independent Module=94 as was
looking for :

> When you write your software, it consists of a set of source
> code files. Each file is an =93Independent Module,=94 as long as
> it doesn't contain any source from the GCC libraries.

So it is any part which is not part of the compiler suite