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Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 09:53:56 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: pthomas at suse dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message <200005210704.AAA05408@penguin.transmeta.com>you write:
> > I think the real question is more along the lines of "Who's going to
> > convince the FSF and Cygnus to stop this stupid requirement of copyright
> > assignments?".
> Cygnus has _nothing_ to do this this requirement, it is strictly the
> FSF's requirement.
Hmm.. So the only real political problem is that nobody wants to offend
rms and the FSF?
That's admirable in itself,
Linus