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Thu Apr 11 05:03:00 GMT 2013

> Upstream now includes a new support library, libatomic_ops, that is
> licensed under a combination of GPLv2 and a custom "MIT-style" licence. Is
> that likely to be any problem?
>libatomic_ops turns out to have mostly been a useful evolutionary step on the way to C11/C++11 atomics. If this is an issue, it should now be fairly easy, at least in the context of a recent gcc, to replace it with the latter.
The licensing was intended not to be a problem. The GPLv2 pieces are either higher-level pieces not be needed at all by gcc, or are only tests for the library. The atomics library itself is covered by the MIT-style license. But, as I said, I think it's no longer critical.
Hans