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BullshitBullshitPosted Nov 20, 2007 22:47 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: GCC unplugged by intgr Parent article: GCC unplugged
If the language is important enough FSF accepts even non-GPLed code in GCC. For example GCC 4.3 will include eclipse's java compiler (see here). Now that's 100% true that FSF does not like to do this if there are any other sane choice, but if D was as popular as Java it'd be no-brainer. But that's not the case: D is rarely (if ever used) and it does not look like anyone will do something terribly big and exciting with D (like KDE or MESA). So the idea is to piggyback on GCC's popularity to raise popularity of D. In this case it looks sensible from FSF to require copyright assignment: why should it promote something it can not control ?
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Bullshit Posted Nov 21, 2007 2:52 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] RMS also agreed to leave the GNU Java class code at GPLv2 or later, precisely to help with free Java (allow the GNU code to be mixed with Sun code). He can be stubborn, but he's more of a pragmatist than he is given credit for.
Bullshit Posted Nov 29, 2007 10:18 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link] >>So the idea is to piggyback on GCC's popularity to raise popularity of D. In this case it looks sensible from FSF to require copyright assignment: why should it promote something it can not control ?<< Because helping D would allow to make better Free Software? That's a Win/Win proposition IMHO. While D is still young, it has the potential to allow programmers to make better SW than C++ (for an equivalent effort).
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