Re: Possible C parsing speedup?

[David Young <dyoung at vviuh221 dot vvi dot com>]

Turly,

To my best observations, Apple now distributes gcc (egcs) under  
non-disclosure agreement and via this link:

http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/

which states:

Welcome to the Apple open source projects page. This page includes links to  
projects that have been released under the Apple Public Source License. By  
accessing this source, you are affirming that you have read and accepted the  
terms of that license.

A link on that page accesses:

http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/projects.html

which shows egcs as such a project (and hence subject to APSL).

The APSL license states:

"11. Ownership. Apple retains all rights, title and interest in and to the  
Original Code and any Modifications made by or on behalf of Apple ("Apple  
Modifications"), and such Apple Modifications will not be automatically  
subject to this License"

Which to me means that if I participate, then the code is totally under  
Apple's jurisdiction, with no appeal (note the phrase "will not be  
automatically", which means simply that Apple can do whatever it wants with  
it, Apple owns it outright.)

Through various routes I've been told that Apple legal will change this and  
that it is some sort of ... oversight?

Do you know when Apple will be changing this situation? and when Apple will  
not distribute (its version of) egcs under NDA?

I'd like to participate, but ... well ... I'm sort of confused.

Sorry to bother you ... and the most respect intended.

Thanks A Bunch! David Young; VVI-DCS
dyoung@vvi.com