This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- To: toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl
- Subject: Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:27:30 -0600 (MDT)
- cc: g95-develop at lists dot sourceforge dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <3921BBF8.D751C515@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org
1. Apparently, SGI didn't assign copyright to the FSF, but retained
it. Therefore, the compiler cannot be part of GCC (yes/no?)
That is correct.
2. But the code is GPL'd - that means that we can rip out parts and
use them in GNU Fortran 95 (yes/no?)
GNU Fortran 95 is also FSF-copyrighted, so we can't use it.
3. Or even take the compiler as a whole and try to retarget it to
the current GCC backend infrastructure (yes/no?)
I don't understand what this would mean, or why we might want to do
it. But it seems like a bad idea to plan on making use of a GCC front
end that we can't include in GCC.