Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005210948240.1320-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>yo
u write:
  > 
  > 
  > On Sun, 21 May 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > > 
  > >   In message <200005210704.AAA05408@penguin.transmeta.com>you write:
  > >   > I think the real question is more along the lines of "Who's going to
  > >   > convince the FSF and Cygnus to stop this stupid requirement of copyri
  > ght
  > >   > assignments?". 
  > > Cygnus has _nothing_ to do this this requirement, it is strictly the
  > > FSF's requirement.
  > 
  > Hmm.. So the only real political problem is that nobody wants to offend
  > rms and the FSF?
No.  I'm sure I've offended RMS in the past, and I'm sure I will again
in the future.  However, since I want to continue to contribute my code
and get it in GCC distributions, I play by the set of rules RMS has set
up for GNU software and GCC in particular.

Ultimately, anyone can choose to not assign their code to the FSF and make
their own distributions as long as they're in compliance with the copyrights
on any software they use (such as SGI has done).  That's a decision everyone
has to make for themselves.

  > That's admirable in itself, 
Maybe, maybe not.  Depends on your point of view.

jeff