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Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:11:41AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> Right.  However, the wording I saw was much broader than just the
>> plugin model.  It was vague and poorly worded, and you could interpret
>> it as saying that use of a non-GPL assembler or linker was also not
>> allowed to build or link the libraries.
>
> That's the version that was dumped, exactly for the reasons you state.
>
Excellent. I'm glad to hear that since I had also seen it and thought that
it was unacceptable in general (speaking for myself).

Anyhow, I hope to see all of this resolved at some point.

-eric
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