Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13) [LWN.net]

From:		Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin-AT-googlemail.com>
To:		Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc-AT-gmail.com>
Subject:		Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
Date:		Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:47:06 +0000
Message-ID:		<49BA9C1A.3020602@gmail.com>
Cc:		=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_L=F3pez-Ib=E1=F1ez?= <lopezibanez-AT-gmail.com>, Richard Guenther <rguenther-AT-suse.de>, gcc-AT-gcc.gnu.org
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Steven Bosscher wrote:

> Or ship as-is and fix the license for GCC 4.5.  I haven't followed the
> legal discussion -- so maybe I'm being naive or I've missed it -- but
> I haven't seen anyone explaining why this is not an option.

  I can see why that won't work.  If there's a problem with the current
licence that would open a backdoor to proprietary plugins, and we ever release
the code under that licence, evaders will be able to maintain a fork under the
original licence no matter how we subsequently relicense it.

  BTW, re your initial post ...

Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
> This is the saddest thing that I have seen in GCC politics so far.

  IMO if a few weeks delay to sort out a really complicated legal technicality
is the saddest thing you've seen so far, we can't be doing that badly.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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