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Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles


On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Joe Buck wrote:

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:11:41AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
Right. However, the wording I saw was much broader than just the
plugin model. It was vague and poorly worded, and you could interpret
it as saying that use of a non-GPL assembler or linker was also not
allowed to build or link the libraries.

That's the version that was dumped, exactly for the reasons you state.

I look forward to seeing the updated version - someday.

-Chris

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