From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 22:37:33 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 1B1D710657AF for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:37:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [69.66.77.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E4F8FC2D for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:37:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0DMKO6S053650; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:20:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0DMKNkH053649; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:20:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:20:23 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Eitan Adler Message-ID: <20090113222023.GA51810@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20090113044111.134EC1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> <496D0FE5.1040903@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496D0FE5.1040903@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:20:24 -0600 (CST) Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Michel Talon , 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: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:37:33 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:04:21PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > > Smells like FUD to me. In all of my reading, I have never seen such a > > claim. There may be some GPLv3 issues, but I seriously doubt this is > > one. > Which leads to my next question: why not upgrade? Given the number of FreeBSD using companies who are completely banned the presence of GPLv3 source from their sites, improvements would have to be extremely compelling and there would have to be a straight forward way to produce snapshots of the src tree with out any GPLv3 components as well as a simple way to build said source tree with a non-GPLv3 compiler. -- Brooks --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJbROmXY6L6fI4GtQRAkVSAKCbVAFwdEWKupP/ngb1W0+eeeZPrgCgu1t7 cfekxxY9nPBCeJr34qYMMpw= =VRpa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--