Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:21:19 +0000 From: David Chisnall <theraven@theravensnest.org> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing default build of gcc Message-ID: <1B345827-76F0-49C7-8D54-82866938E0A1@theravensnest.org> In-Reply-To: <20130125113122.GN2522@kib.kiev.ua> References: <74D8E686-3679-46F2-8A08-4CF5DFC020CA@FreeBSD.org> <20130125113122.GN2522@kib.kiev.ua>
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On 25 Jan 2013, at 11:31, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > To clarify: there is no plans to not ship any GPLed code for 10.x. This is something that has been said on mailing lists, at BSDCan and at = DevSummits in the past, without any objections being raised. If this is = no longer a goal, then that is very sad, because we have currently a = window in which a lot of potential downstream users are looking for a = GPL-free stack and are put off FreeBSD and towards proprietary solutions = because we still require GPL'd code for a working base system. If we = put off this goal for another two years, we are likely to lose a lot of = potential corporate contributors, who will invest in in-house and = proprietary systems instead. > Instead, there are still plans to ship working 10.x. I don't believe that these are contradictory goals and would certainly = not ever prefer a non-working system to a working one. =20 Indeed, in many cases the alternative is a non-working system. For = example, the debugger that we ship doesn't understand DWARF4 generated = by any modern compiler (including gcc or clang). David=
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