From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 09:42:04 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 D6FCA1065673 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:42:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f13.google.com (mail-bw0-f13.google.com [209.85.218.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CB58FC17 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:42:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so356257bwz.19 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:42:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rhHsiqbXsNc42IJMr5vAU9IEFow1PsIDQkJCIgD4LeA=; b=vP9VMek4aDeAb+9ftFl48P1mnksOL349FsgPFia8GtGW2R8x14IyuUBE4mImXxBSum ED8LzmBhky00iuROClmXUOSqq7irtOLkZ2y4kzD42V1reEkrxf2gfoB7pNHdRVOHa98T 9bLkFU+D0aBX4nMkbd2finur6Qwpl5mDb5WBw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PQpdKjuTbdFbe4ir0ZUlQpp6Ga23MtPv27APRVEEFGLy0h5h3MUMjGE+5tbu/mbW+p g2eWRDO4PegPD9QuHGJiJLvtQr1saOaPVMDutK5AK7JxPxmvYcH+FitmxA3mqfxbAPU+ U7MhFqGZFlFKprfNsGQWrnmZMRwj3u511XAhU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.223.8 with SMTP id v8mr723890bkg.181.1232530757811; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:39:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090121092901.GA2405@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <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> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:39:17 -0800 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901210139o4944c7ffw846ca7a6ecfc90b7@mail.gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: Anton Shterenlikht Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 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: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:42:05 -0000 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Anton Shterenlikht 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