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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:30:19AM -0700, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
>> > We have been asked by the SC to not branch for now but wait for
>> > the wording for the new runtime license to arrive from the FSF and
>> > that being put in place.
>>
>> This is the saddest thing that I have seen in GCC politics so far.
>
> I don't understand why you think it's sad.
I think it is sad because there is a lengthy delay for the release and
for GCC 4.5 development while, at least as far as I can see, the whole
discussion is not relevant for GCC 4.4. The new license exception is
written to support a plugin infrastructure, right? But that won't be
in GCC 4.4. So why can't GCC 4.4 ship with the old license?
Gr.
Steven