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Re: Moving to an alternate VCS

* Thorsten Glaser:

>> But since GCC is a FSF project ... it really cannot use non free source
>> software.
>
> About that... is subversion's licence considered free enough by
> the FSF? Note that svn itself is (IIRC) bsd- or similar, but it
> depends on the APR, which is (IIRC) Apache(tee emm) licence 2.0
> with its patent clauses and anything.

These Apache licenses are consider free software licenses by the FSF,
they are just incompatible with the GPL.  (Subversion itself is
licensed under one of them, too.)
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