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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: dominiq at lps dot ens dot fr (Dominique Dhumieres)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:35:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
NightStrike wrote:
> What if GCC went back to stage 3 until the issue is resolved, thus
> opening the door for a number of stage3-type patches that don't affect
> 1) licensing and 2) plugin frameworks, but are merely bug fixes which
> would have long been shaken out by now.
It would be indeed nice, but it is probably a too obvious solution.
I think a change in the licence is against the gcc policy for stage 4: it
is neither a regression (no pr open stating it) nor a documentation fix.
Those who did not accept GPL3 have left the gcc development and the others
have worked with it since then.
Dominique