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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
To: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>,Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>,Scott Robert Ladd <coyote at coyotegulch dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:36:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
References: <10312011528.AA26427@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <3FCBE69D.6070702@gnat.com> <20031202101338.A25174@synopsys.com> <200312021938.35535.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>

Steven Bosscher wrote:

My remark wrt. freedom wasn't about copyright but about the fact that the Cray front end is GPL v2.0 _only_, i.e. it does not say "or (at your option) any later version".

Don't read too much into license statements on files (after all they have no real legal significance). I would think it very unlikely that SGI would allow a file to be licensed under any future license written by someone they have no control over. After all GPL version 4 could say all sorts of unacceptable things from their point of view.

As I said before, these kind of licensing issues are all discussable,
both with SGI, and with FSF.

Certainly software licensed under GPL 2.0 is Free Software :-)

References:
- Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
  - From: Steven Bosscher

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