From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 22:44:54 2011 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 065A8106564A for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:44:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from resmaa12.ono.com (smtp12.ono.com [62.42.230.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942BA8FC14 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from GogPortatil.retena.com (212.21.232.228) by resmaa12.ono.com (8.5.113) (authenticated as nec556@retena.com) id 4D301C9700CF8CF6; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:44:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4D301C9700CF8CF6@> (added by postmaster@resmaa12.ono.com) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:44:52 +0200 To: Gary Dunn ,Adam Vande More From: Eduardo In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: gcc 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: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:44:54 -0000 At 20:19 31/03/2011, Gary Dunn wrote: >Can someone point me to an official position statement on this ban >on GPL3 code in FreeBSD? Doesn't seem right to me. And please, no >GPL flame wars. Don't know if there were an official Some links that may be interesting: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7035 http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd9.html "CLANG / LLVM compiler" entry http://www.links.org/?p=518 "Will GPLv3 Kill GPL?" http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility "GPLv2 compatible with GPLv3?" http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/175.en.html Apple and some other companies made the switch from gcc to llvm some years ago, in Apple case, because gnu/fsf forced to make all objective-c compiler developed by Apple for gcc open source, because gcc was GPL (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1390172) Resuming, or my resume, GPLv3 is politically incorrect for a BSD project, it's preferred BSD tools, made by BSD community for BSD community and (as licence allows it) by extension everyone than GPLv3 tools made for GNU/FSF and (as licence don't permit share) only for them. HTH