From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 03:10:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1385106564A for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:10:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de) Received: from VA3EHSOBE005.bigfish.com (outbound-va3.frontbridge.com [216.32.180.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615CA8FC18 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:10:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de) Received: from mail204-va3-R.bigfish.com (10.7.14.242) by VA3EHSOBE005.bigfish.com (10.7.40.25) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.291.1; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:55:22 +0000 Received: from mail204-va3 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail204-va3-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFAA1218097; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:55:22 +0000 (UTC) X-BigFish: VS2(z34a4jz98dR936fOzzzz2ba5Mz2dh6bh87il43j66h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 5:0 X-FB-DOMAIN-IP-MATCH: fail Received: by mail204-va3 (MessageSwitch) id 1231728920785443_22566; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:55:20 +0000 (UCT) Received: from lpozpwexc02.lpint.net (unknown [203.166.32.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail204-va3.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D13F50057; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from klein.bigpond.com (10.61.24.85) by lpozpwexc02.lpint.net (10.61.38.9) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.311.2; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:55:17 +1100 Received: from klein.bigpond.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by klein.bigpond.com (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n0C2tUMP001839; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:55:30 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de) Received: from localhost (petros@localhost) by klein.bigpond.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n0C2tS81001836; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:55:29 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de) X-Authentication-Warning: klein.au.lpint.net: petros owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:55:28 +1100 From: Peter Ross X-X-Sender: petros@klein.bigpond.com To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0901111813y3da92325p6d2a3541d7db53a2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <61484.71762.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090111044448.GC5661@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4969CC6D.6030707@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <496A8F45.7010400@gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0901111813y3da92325p6d2a3541d7db53a2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:11:30 +0000 Cc: Peter Jeremy , Eitan Adler , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:10:27 -0000 On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Definitely look up the terms of the LGPL and GPL and compare and > contrast those licenses versus the BSD, MIT, and Apache licenses. You > might be surprised... Probably more interesting are comparisons between GPL v2 and v3 and concerns voiced by Linux developers. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License and http://lwn.net/Articles/200422/. I am not a lawyer .. I have an opinion but it is probably better to leave comments to people with better understanding of legal issues. Regards Peter