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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: rth at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 00 08:30:02 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, 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.
But there's no legal way to restrict GPL'ed material to "those who had the
proper Intel paperwork"!