GCC to open the C++ demangle API?

[Joe Buck]

Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk> writes:
> > As the OP I would like to chip in at this point. I no longer wish for the
> > API to be opened. I agree with RMS that since there is no standard for
> > name mangling in C++ the most appropriate license for this code is the GPL
> > rather than the LGPL.

Jason Merrill writes:
> But there IS a standard for name mangling.  And there are at least two
> other vendors with compatible compilers: HP and Intel.
> 
>   http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling

Furthermore RMS has already agreed to change the license, so this issue is
now moot and we can argue about something else. :-)