GCC to open the C++ demangle API?

[David O'Brien]

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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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)