Re: Possible C parsing speedup?

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Mike Stump wrote:
> 
> > From: David Young <dyoung@vviuh221.vvi.com>
> 
> > To my best observations, Apple now distributes gcc (egcs) under
> > non-disclosure agreement and via this link:
> 
> > http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/
> 
> Tell em to fix it.  Tell em, we'll sick the open source community on
> them if they don't.  :-)

The words I used to our folks here was "juicy Slashdot story".... :-)
 
> > Through various routes I've been told that Apple legal will change this and
> > that it is some sort of ... oversight?
> 
> I expect the best way to handle this, would be to find the technical
> people in Apple responsible for the care and feeding of that compiler,
> and inform them, and have them read and understand the GPL, if they
> haven't, and have them go hit their own people.  If they fail to
> correct the situation, we can have the FSF sue them for copyright
> infringement.  The FSF would love to enforce their rights in this
> matter, if Apple desires to not budge.  :-)

Heh, I've already been shown a draft of revised wording, and it looks
much better.

> They need to get right of the NDA for all `open' projects, it is just
> wrong.  The definition of open isn't consistent with NDA.  :-(

The NDA is supposed to apply to the non-open stuff like the Aqua GUI,
not to Darwin, which is all open source.  But Apple ships out CDs with
the stuff all mixed together.  What they need is the thick "book of licenses"
like what WRS and Cygnus and others ship with their software packages.

What's ironic is that part of Apple's developer/user/vendor community
thinks Apple is being dangerously radical in doing any open source at
all, and then there's this crowd that thinks they're not going far
enough!

Stan