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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:10:53PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Steven Bosscher wrote:
> 
> > (The available Fortran front end is of course the excelent Cray Fortran 90 
> > front end which is a fine piece of software with a GPL v2.0 license and an 
> > SGI copyright, hence "not free enough" for the FSF, but "free enough" for 
> > everybody else.)
> 
> Don't make this assumption. If there are good arguments for including 
> this front end in the gcc project, then the copyright issue is 
> discussable (both with SGI and FSF).

Also, the FSF's desire to own the entire copyright of GCC is a tactical
decision, which has nothing to do with their concept of freedom.  Since
it's tactics, not principle, as Robert says such things can be negotiated.
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