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General Public License. Of course, your program’s

commands might be different; for a GUI interface,

you would use an “about box”.
You should also get your employer (if you work as

a programmer) or school, if any, to sign a “copyright

disclaimer” for the program, if necessary.

For more information on this, and how to apply and

follow the GNU GPL, see

licenses/>.
The GNU General Public License does not permit

incorporating your program into proprietary

programs. If your program is a subroutine library,

you may consider it more useful to permit linking

proprietary applications with the library. If this is

what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General

Public License instead of this License. But fi rst,

please read

not-lgpl.html>.

GCC-EXCEPTION

GCC RUNTIME LIBRARY EXCEPTION

Version 3.1, 31 March 2009

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute

verbatim copies of this license document, but

changing it is not allowed.
This GCC Runtime Library Exception (“Exception”)

is an additional permission under section 7 of the

GNU General Public License, version 3 (“GPLv3”). It

applies to a given fi le (the “Runtime Library”) that

bears a notice placed by the copyright holder of the

fi le stating that the fi le is governed by GPLv3 along

with this Exception.
When you use GCC to compile a program, GCC may

combine portions of certain GCC header fi les and

runtime libraries with the compiled program. The

purpose of this Exception is to allow compilation of

non-GPL (including proprietary) programs to use,

in this way, the header fi les and runtime libraries

covered by this Exception.
0. Defi nitions.
A fi le is an “Independent Module” if it either

requires the Runtime Library for execution after a

Compilation Process, or makes use of an interface

provided by the Runtime Library, but is not

otherwise based on the Runtime Library.
“GCC” means a version of the GNU Compiler

Collection, with or without modifi cations, governed

by version 3 (or a specifi ed later version) of

the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the

option of using any subsequent versions published

by the FSF.
“GPL-compatible Software” is software whose

conditions of propagation, modifi cation and use

would permit combination with GCC in accord with

the license of GCC.
“Target Code” refers to output from any compiler

for a real or virtual target processor architecture,

in executable form or suitable for input to

an assembler, loader, linker and/or execution

phase. Notwithstanding that, Target Code does

not include data in any format that is used as a

compiler intermediate representation, or used

for producing a compiler intermediate

representation.
The “Compilation Process” transforms code entirely

represented in non-intermediate languages designed

for human-written code, and/or in Java Virtual Machine

byte code, into Target Code. Thus, for example, use

of source code generators and preprocessors need

not be considered part of the Compilation Process,

since the Compilation Process can be understood

as starting with the output of the generators or

preprocessors.
A Compilation Process is “Eligible” if it is done

using GCC, alone or with other GPL-compatible

software, or if it is done without using any

work based on GCC. For example, using non-

GPL-compatible Software to optimize any GCC

intermediate representations would not qualify as

an Eligible Compilation Process.
1. Grant of Additional Permission.
You have permission to propagate a work of

Target Code formed by combining the Runtime

Library with Independent Modules, even if such

propagation would otherwise violate the terms

of GPLv3, provided that all Target Code was

generated by Eligible Compilation Processes. You

may then convey such a combination under terms

of your choice, consistent with the licensing of the

Independent Modules.
2. No Weakening of GCC Copyleft.
The availability of this Exception does not imply

any general presumption that third-party software

is unaffected by the copyleft requirements of the

license of GCC.

Runtime Error