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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, rth at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 07:35:14 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, law at redhat dot com,rms at gnu dot org
<<The fact of the matter is that the development was very open, at
least to anyone who had proper Intel paperwork. HP did the initial
gcc and binutils work; Cygnus refined both and began optimization
work; folks from CERN, Intel, IBM, SGI, SuSE, TurboLinux, and VA
were testing new code regularly.
>>
I am very aware of the process that was followed, but the issue I
raised here was that these community members who "had done the
proper Intel paperwork" were in some cases exchanging GPL'ed
code under a non-disclosure, which is clearly impermissible
under the GPL.
<<Things were done with as much community involvement as the lawyers
would allow.
>>
But the GPL does not allow community involvement to be limited in
this manner by lawyers :-)