Re: GCC 3.0 Request

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

>>>>> "David" == David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

    David> sources.  According to Geoff's follow-up comment, the
    David> GNUPro patch "is not suitable for integration into the
    David> public sources."  So where does that leave the public
    David> sources and developers who want to use the public sources
    David> on AIX?

1. What's wrong with the change?  Surely some modifcation of it
   (to move it into a target-dependent file, for example) would
   work?

2. It's not really correct to describe the GNUPro sources as
   non-public.

   The GPL protects the rights of people receiving GNUPro releases
   just as much as it does people receiving FSF release.  There's
   no way I know of to take GPL'd code and distribute it to someone,
   without allowing them to distribute it further -- that's the
   whole point of the GPL.  So, if the GNUPro sources aren't widely
   available, that's only because GNUPro customers don't choose to
   distribute them!

   If people have GNUPro releases that contain things not in the FSF
   release, they might want to consider posting the code so that other
   people can benefit from those improvements.

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