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GCC unpluggedGCC unpluggedPosted Nov 21, 2007 19:44 UTC (Wed) by landley (subscriber, #6789)In reply to: GCC unplugged by nix Parent article: GCC unplugged
Are you aware of a single instance where Stallman got _more_ flexible with time, instead of less? I'm honestly curious. Examples, please?
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GCC unplugged Posted Nov 22, 2007 0:41 UTC (Thu) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link] Two examples that spring to mind: the output of Bison can be used in non-free programs; and support for the GPL to BSD license change of Ogg Vorbis. I am sure there are more.
GCC unplugged Posted Nov 22, 2007 10:15 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Well, there's the case we were just discussing: RMS shifted from a strict 'no non-FSF-copyrighted code in GCC' to allowing it for ecj; he shifted from a 'no writing out internals' to allowing it for link-time optimizations... he's not completely dogmatic: if the choice is between useful free software that incorporates stuff copyrighted by other people or makes things easy for GPL violations, and between free software that lags behind and is outcompeted by other stuff, he has a track record of not taking the route that will kill the free software. You just have to convince him that this will happen unless he bends, which is kind of hard. (Part of this is probably the perfectly normal pride-in-project: nobody wants to see something they started get thrashed by something else if it can be avoided.)
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