Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?

[Steven Bosscher]

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 19:13, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:10:53PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > > (The available Fortran front end is of course the excelent Cray Fortran
> > > 90 front end which is a fine piece of software with a GPL v2.0 license
> > > and an SGI copyright, hence "not free enough" for the FSF, but "free
> > > enough" for everybody else.)
> >
> > Don't make this assumption. If there are good arguments for including
> > this front end in the gcc project, then the copyright issue is
> > discussable (both with SGI and FSF).
>
> Also, the FSF's desire to own the entire copyright of GCC is a tactical
> decision, which has nothing to do with their concept of freedom.  Since
> it's tactics, not principle, as Robert says such things can be negotiated.

My remark wrt. freedom wasn't about copyright but about the fact that the Cray 
front end is GPL v2.0 _only_, i.e. it does not say "or (at your option) any 
later version".

Gr.
Steven