EDA vendors incorporating gcc/mingw/gdb

[Peter Roozemaal]

AZ wrote:

> I assume that those vendors are not all breaking the law, so how
> should I understand the term "incorporate"? If a windows installer
> that installs a big software system places MinGW/gdb into that system
> subdirectory and then a proprietary GUI calls gcc in the backend and
> displays its output on the transcript area, then is it incorporation
> or not?

Short answer: When gcc is on the harddisk as a separate program and is
run as a separate process, that does not bring the GUI under the GPL.

Read the GPL or the GPL-FAQ (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html)
for more detailed information.

Peter.