John Vestal writes:
 
>Will the GNU C++ allow commerical applications to be written an
>executed using this compiler?  A co-worker remembers that this was brought
>up in the past but a corporation (ie. Northern Telecom) would violate the
>licensing agreement using the GNU compiler to write applications.
 
Using g++ to write applications was not the issue. The issue was with the
use of libg++ - a class library that is included with g++. There used to be
a problem with the licensing arrangement with libg++ and that has since
been resolved.
 
M.