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Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?

From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
To: carlo at alinoe dot com
Cc: phil at jaj dot com, levon at movementarian dot org, apm35 at student dot open dot ac dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:08:23 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
References: <fc.004c5401019404bf004c5401019404bf.19404dc@oufcnt2.open.ac.uk> <20020304133351.GF46259@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20020304181639.B15443@alinoe.com> <20020304122803.A11326@disaster.basement.lan> <20020304184749.D15443@alinoe.com>
Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org

If you think of GCC as "open source" you are likely to find all our
decisions perplexing.  The GNU Project is part of the Free Software
Movement; its basic idea, and the reason why I wrote GCC in the first
place, is that *software should be free*.  Non-free published software
constitutes a social problem, and we aim to solve that problem.  The
Open Source Movement was founded, many years after GCC was written
specifically to avoid saying such things.

We use the GPL so as to maximize the effect we can get from our code
in fixing the social problem of proprietary software.  For more
explanation, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html and
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.html.

References:
- GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
  - From: Andrew Marlow
- Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
  - From: John Levon
- Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
  - From: Carlo Wood
- Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
  - From: Phil Edwards
- Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
  - From: Carlo Wood

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