Re: [Mingw-users] Why libintl is linked to libgcc_s_dw2?

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:30:10 -0600
> From: "John E. / TDM" <td...@td...>
> 
> The good news is, GCC's steering committee and the FSF seem to agree 
> with us, and GCC's runtime libraries are licensed with an additional 
> exception clause to the GPL. The bad news is, I am not a lawyer and the 
> wordings of the exception clause and its associated explanatory FAQ [1] 
> do not inspire confidence in distributing GCC runtime DLLs without 
> accompanying source code.

That exception doesn't cover libgcc in DLL form.  I know because I
asked RMS and got a direct answer.