BSD Dissatisfied with gcc... why?

BSD Dissatisfied with gcc... why?

Posted Nov 18, 2008 0:33 UTC (Tue) by EmbeddedLinuxGuy (guest, #35019)
In reply to: BSD Dissatisfied with gcc... why? by nix
Parent article: pcc seeks contributions to reach 1.0 milestone

the stated reason for pcc's being revived in the first place rather than working on something non-stoneage was a fear of the GPL / desire to have absolutely nothing GPLed in their entire distro.

What I have read from the BSD leadership explicitly denies this. See the interview in the Jem Report where Theo de Raadt says that replacing GPL-licensed code has "never really been the agenda". I don't deny that there may be BSD folks who would prefer an all-BSD-licensed distribution, but I have not seen this stated as a reason for anything.

Theo's point is that we should not be dependent on a software monoculture; which is the same reason we benefit from both KDE and GNOME, Linux and BSD, Firefox and Webkit, etc etc. I see nothing "anti-GPL" here.

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