Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:30:09 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) Message-ID: <200901291330.18007.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <49811242.7030106@delphij.net> References: <20090128155340.GA75143@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200901291243.00378.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <49811242.7030106@delphij.net>
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--nextPart1765109.TEC4zHrJ2t Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 29 January 2009 12:49:46 Xin LI wrote: > > The "eligible compilation process" is where you use GCC and GPL > > compatible software. > > > > I think for the FreeBSD project that is fine. > > I agree, this term seems to be targeted to companies behind closed > source optimizers. Speaking for myself, I think FreeBSD would avoid > GPLv3 code where possible to minimize the risk it would introduce to > commercial users of our codebase, we want our code be used by as many > people as possible to better exploit its value. Seems like a fairly marginal case (speaking as someone who ships proprietar= y=20 software built by GCC running on FreeBSD). I think for the compiler/tool chain GPLv3 is OK, but for example, in librar= ies=20 it would [very] bad. Luckily I don't see that being a problem for FreeBSD :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1765109.TEC4zHrJ2t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJgRu75ZPcIHs/zowRAqKFAJ9fG6pujk/kA4mM9QtFDyzuQj2VGQCfQ9lZ ZPpz3gXfeJGU+bMDJzRN1DI= =ljFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1765109.TEC4zHrJ2t--
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