From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 13:35:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A3E106566C for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4F28FC14 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werg1 with SMTP id g1so1728460wer.13 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:35:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y+uUutPSgCZNcYnl/PYml/A5souQx0kzKpPsa5hdtV0=; b=n2SkLGpZcNkhl5bn4TfyyJZuDj4uxLK1XAcp9V4VZjMNJt++7PNymZ19SNa5F6VQTq nVC3rojbQMrQjZ2E3Q6mU9q5r6YGuR2IEJAq/qFUAm8LaBqaggYAj2vbfXxVNMa+vKHy 3mz4T0HaplT7J+eJUUml1sPRS3q6BdbgOLaMI= Received: by 10.216.137.4 with SMTP id x4mr708156wei.15.1327152912408; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ho4sm3056965wib.3.2012.01.21.05.35.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:35:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:06 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120121133506.7bcfaec9@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4F1AAB66.5070100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4F1AAB66.5070100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Clang - what is the story? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:14 -0000 On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:18 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general > feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD > and ports. The only reason I can see from searching is a need to get > away from gcc (which is tried and tested since the beginning of time) > which is now apparently GPLv3. > > Can someone offer some clarity as to the importance of this? I'm > guessing the that stepping away from GPL is generally a good thing, > especially if there is something similar with similar license > structure to BSD; I just can't understand the rush of it. > > Even under GPL anything built using gcc can be licensed as you like, > so I doubt it could be that. It is that. I don't know the details, but GPLv3 is sufficiently more viral that recent gcc versions can't be used as the base system compiler. We're currently stuck with a version from 2007.