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Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:13:31AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Perhaps the sanest thing to do would be distribute it separately,
> under a permissive license -- I would recommend GPL+runtime exception
> or three-clause BSD, not LGPL. Get it packaged and included in major
> free operating system distributions, contribute patches for other
> libraries (including those included with GCC) to make them use it, etc.
This is not a good situation. The FSF took Berkeley's YACC and GPL'ed
it[*]. Contributions to Byacc(under the name Bison) were GPL'ed, thus
preventing the changes from being also committed to Byacc.
This dual GPL/BSD licensing has not worked well in some cases, and only
leads to code forks -- purely because of licensing issues.
[*] to the displeasure of Robert Corbett, the Byacc author.
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