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Re: GFDL/GPL issues
- From: Brian Makin <merimus at yahoo dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:20:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
>On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
wrote:
>>> Steven Bosscher wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Why not just ignore RMS and the license issues and simply do what we
>>>>> think suits us and the project. Let the FSF deal with the legal
>>>consequences,
>>>>> they put us in this messy situation, they deal with it.
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me that escalating the issue is more helpful. GCC is not
>>>> the only project with this problem.
>>>
>>> Sadly, at this point, RMS is simply taking the position that this is not
>>> a problem worth solving.
>>
>> Ah, how the "free" in Free Software Foundation takes a whole different
>> meaning when it comes to actual freedom...
>
>Ha! Sounds like time to overturn the (benevolent?) dictator!
>
>Richard.
Or to move to a better foundation? It seems to me that gcc has had various
issues for various reasons for quite a while now. RMS is all for tightly
controller yet freely distributable software.
Maybe it's time to throw more effort behind something like LLVM?