Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:39:17 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler? Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901210139o4944c7ffw846ca7a6ecfc90b7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090121092901.GA2405@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <de2964020901141507m5a30c466ta1e05694d220ce0b@mail.gmail.com> <496FBFCD.6010302@FreeBSD.org> <7d6fde3d0901152315y7c6ce36fqe137519bd73e3e@mail.gmail.com> <20090116100932.GB36588@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <497064C6.5070807@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <3AF071CA587B4B61A2E1778E7FA17615@PegaPegII> <7d6fde3d0901202028q255e82e6g3cc55df7046bd0c0@mail.gmail.com> <20090121044326.GA98425@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <7d6fde3d0901210120y184dc3f0k7c7a9c96aeb1bba4@mail.gmail.com> <20090121092901.GA2405@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:20:32AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> >> >> I hate to rain on your parade but that's LGPLv3, so it'll probably >> >> be rejected... >> >> You'll need to try binutils 2.17 (that's the latest LGPLv2.1 copy >> >> laying around). > > I'm just a FBSD user. What's all this about, v2.1 vs v3? > Is v3 more restrictive than v2.1? > Or is this more complex? > > forgive my ignorance > > thanks > anton In short, yes v3 is more restrictive that v2.1: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html I misread Peg's original post though, and didn't realize Peg was creating a port -- not trying to import the change into the base system... -Garrett
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