On 8/12/07, Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com> wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > But people are not so happy with the wording here:
> > http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=139510
>
> That's interesting. C30 is certainly not solely the IP of Microchip, as
> it includes parts by the FSF. I think distributing the
> libraries/linkscripts/headers under a different license is OK, as long
> as they aren't derived from the GCC base libraries. However, they can't
> claim any rights over the C30 GCC source or its derivatives (I'm not
> sure about the binaries, but that is irrelevant, since you can compile
> them on your own), of course, so you can compile it on your own and make
> a free version of C30, as long as you reimplement their libraries.
>
> At least that's the way I see it. IANAL.
>

John Scott complained to Microchip. I think I agreed with him.
Hhe is the one who provides patched to the source so that
we can build the compiler under Ubuntu or other Linux
distros.
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=139360
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=218994

I think it is ok to build the compiler under Linux and install
the Windows version under Wine to use the header files,
linker scripts and the libraries. That is what I am doing.
But I am not a lawyer.

Xiaofan


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