Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:13:47 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Eitan Adler" <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901111813y3da92325p6d2a3541d7db53a2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <496A8F45.7010400@gmail.com> References: <61484.71762.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090111044448.GC5661@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4969CC6D.6030707@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <496A8F45.7010400@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> wrote: > I never took care about GPLv2 and v3 >> differences but know, this seems to come to relevance in some way. > > I don't seem to understand this. Why should gpl v3 affect the OS? The > output of the compiler isn't affected by the license. Is it? Yes the GPLv3 is `extremely viral' when dealing with proprietary innovations and features, compared to GPLv2. Hence that's why Apple, Cisco, Intel, Juniper, etc are incredibly wary of licensing, and are sidestepping around the whole GPLv3 issue as much as possible, wherever possible. Many companies also have to write in functionality and tie-ins which expose portions of the OS, debugging tools, libraries, etc that would require them to expose their proprietary secrets. They should be just as exposed with GPLv2, but the GPLv3 is more stringent and the FSF is ramping up copyright infringement notices to get people to adhere to the licenses they accepted when they started hacking at the relevant pieces of opensource software, as many people having been conforming to the licensing agreements and terms contained within the accepted licenses. Definitely look up the terms of the LGPL and GPL and compare and contrast those licenses versus the BSD, MIT, and Apache licenses. You might be surprised... Cheers, -Garrett
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