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Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- From: Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>
- Date: 16 May 2000 01:43:15 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <6211.958424959@upchuck>
Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> > so we cannot include it lock, stock and barrel into the GNU
> > Compiler Collection; however, if the source is released under the GPL,
> > it might be possible to just rip out the parts we can use to build a
> > (say, Fortran 95) compiler we *can* assign to the FSF.
> You'd have to discuss it with RMS, but I suspect the answer is no, we couldn't
> do that with any significant amounts of code.
They did it the other way around instead: The included C/C++ frontend
is egcs based. The backed is SGI's own. The F90 frontend is the Cray one.
All under the GPL.
-Andi