ports/185970: lang/gcc-aux LICENSE is (grossly) incorrect

Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Tue Jan 21 20:00:01 UTC 2014


>Number:         185970
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       lang/gcc-aux LICENSE is (grossly) incorrect
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 21 20:00:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gerald Pfeifer
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
	The entry LICENSE=GPLv3 applies to large parts of the compiler
	but is utterly and totally incorrect as it comes to the run time
	provided by this port.  GCC has gone to great lengths not to
	render software built with GCC and/or linking against its run-
	time libraries free software as well, among others by virtue
	of the run-time exceptions in the license.

	The current statement grossly misrepresents this and can easily
	to people drawing incorrect conclusions. 
>How-To-Repeat:
	Cf. 
	// Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional
	// permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version
	// 3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
	in many files under libstdc++/src for example.

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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