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Re: Build requirements for the graphite loop optimization passes
- From: "Daniel Berlin" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "Ralf Wildenhues" <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>, "Sebastian Pop" <sebpop at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Mark Mitchell" <mark at codesourcery dot com>, "Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub at redhat dot com>, "David Edelsohn" <edelsohn at gmail dot com>, "Harle, Christophe" <christophe dot harle at amd dot com>, "Tobias Grosser" <grosser at fim dot uni-passau dot de>, "Konrad Trifunovic" <konrad dot trifunovic at gmail dot com>, "Albert Cohen" <Albert dot Cohen at inria dot fr>, "Roberto Bagnara" <bagnara at cs dot unipr dot it>, "Doran Wilde" <wilde at ee dot byu dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:07:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: Build requirements for the graphite loop optimization passes
- References: <cb9d34b20808031231l690256a2r918908804397072b@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808031947270.15922@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <20080804074738.GA17657@ins.uni-bonn.de> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808041018040.24095@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
>> * Joseph S. Myers wrote on Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 10:00:38PM CEST:
>> >
>> > (But the configure code also
>> > shouldn't allow configuring with a GPLv2 version of polylib.)
>>
>> Why? Use is not forbidden by incompatible free software licenses here,
>> only redistribution is.
>
> This is the same principle as config.host giving an error for an attempt
> to build on UWIN host: in both cases, avoid knowingly building something
> undistributable.
>
If we are doing that, we really shouldn't be.
One of the very explicit freedoms in the GPL is to be able to build
versions for internal use that are not publicly distributed.