Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

Chris Lattner <clattner@apple.com> writes:
> > I'm not speaking for Apple here, and I am not a lawyer.  However, the
> > last draft of the runtime library exception clause (which is quite old
> > by now) imposed licensing restrictions on the executables generated by
> > GCC (due to linked runtime libraries) if you did certain things to the
> > compiler.  I'm personally very eager to see the final wording, because
> > the draft I saw (again, which is old and has certainly changed) was
> > extremely aggressive.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:50:13AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I do not know what draft you saw, but I don't think I ever saw it,
> unless we disagree on the meaning of "extremely aggressive."

There was a first version that had some problems, forbidding things
that weren't intended to be forbidden and with muddy language making
the scope of the GCC exception unclear.  But this was never intentional.