From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 09:23:24 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 811E9106564A for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from c.kworr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96EC8FC08 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so7452804bkv.13 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:23:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sEW5L1JooJvPH97/XZLt4IjlQDex1Fw7zXseQMxzNWQ=; b=JB6mE2eHGxxUsxOZOfbhZ7XB/5e9MeMsSym3XglJ/1NipjS6YMyO1Um9e952QxWRHE Ol8n+OEZ8bmsYwQMtNrrcOHdx4Qdrq/TspqYIXp8sryuv1IalfuaSp+DrGyHEfYSWuTl ktp+TzCNfO2gC8btqDUOAdvkatAqZOjqJ8TDUt1S06Am4NYUG3z0NW5LTB9siIvr1Fwk vMZflQVu9N4vgOvPJo1e9Z/nb8GnO6XD5vQbrvYdu37zeQUbFlImhmzBf9SixpGwrZPi 52DER8tlMIYW242/43yCeVwXGlNmNTGg6gK6EViGupBEEfJ2jdvQEfi//Xcy0YUIFGDw s+tQ== Received: by 10.204.154.214 with SMTP id p22mr9366785bkw.115.1340184202908; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from green.tandem.local (utwig.xim.bz. [91.216.237.46]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m2sm26750650bkm.2.2012.06.20.02.23.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FE19687.80602@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:23:19 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120605 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <402199FE-380B-41B6-866B-7D5D66C457D5@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20120619205225.21d6709f.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FE189D9.4040404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Polytropon , FreeBSD Questions , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= Subject: Re: Why Clang 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: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:23:24 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> The bad thing about GPLv3 is that if anyone commits any code under >> this license into the tree vendors that use our code base for making >> their own OSes will ditch FreeBSD as they can be sued by FSF. Juniper >> for example. It would be wise to listen to their point of view on GPLv3. > > not really understood this. > > -------- > if anyone commits any code under this > license into the tree > -------- > into what tree? gcc tree or FreeBSD tree? I was talking about FreeBSD sources here. > FreeBSD has it's own copy of gcc so any change in gcc doesn't > automatically change FreeBSD code and licencing. FreeBSD has old and abandoned copy of gcc, the last version available under GPLv2 license. >> FreeBSD is heading the right way: bringing BSD toolchain to the world >> and fixing world compilation with gcc46 from ports would give anyone a >> choice on which compiler to use keeping GPL out of tree. > > the right way is to use best performing tools as long as no law problems > exist. There can be different ways for selecting best tools. Someone needs better performance while other one state that stability is a must. For now clang is a choice for stability and not the performance. Yet due to the rapid development this is subject to change while gcc is not. Think of it like we are changing a car that shines for the one that can move. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.