From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 03:00:43 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 C7A32106564A for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:00:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD458FC1C for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:00:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.localnet (Inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0T30Kk5026313 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:30:21 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: d@delphij.net Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:30:09 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27-9-generic; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) References: <20090128155340.GA75143@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200901291243.00378.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <49811242.7030106@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <49811242.7030106@delphij.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1765109.TEC4zHrJ2t"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901291330.18007.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michel Talon Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard 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: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:00:44 -0000 --nextPart1765109.TEC4zHrJ2t Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 29 January 2009 12:49:46 Xin LI wrote: > > The "eligible compilation process" is where you use GCC and GPL > > compatible software. > > > > I think for the FreeBSD project that is fine. > > I agree, this term seems to be targeted to companies behind closed > source optimizers. Speaking for myself, I think FreeBSD would avoid > GPLv3 code where possible to minimize the risk it would introduce to > commercial users of our codebase, we want our code be used by as many > people as possible to better exploit its value. Seems like a fairly marginal case (speaking as someone who ships proprietar= y=20 software built by GCC running on FreeBSD). I think for the compiler/tool chain GPLv3 is OK, but for example, in librar= ies=20 it would [very] bad. Luckily I don't see that being a problem for FreeBSD :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1765109.TEC4zHrJ2t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJgRu75ZPcIHs/zowRAqKFAJ9fG6pujk/kA4mM9QtFDyzuQj2VGQCfQ9lZ ZPpz3gXfeJGU+bMDJzRN1DI= =ljFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1765109.TEC4zHrJ2t--