Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

[Yuhong Bao]

> 1) This is offtopic.
Yeah, but I want to bring this up because I can tell it is affecting GCC
development.

>From http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-02/msg00523.html:
"> If someone steps forward, are you allowed to follow the patches list
We can't read the patches nor gcc list.
> and give feedback and/or approve patches for new contributors? I assume
> this is possible since you helped out with objc++ review for me just
> recently.
Only because I was cced on it."

>From http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-02/msg00516.html:
"> Are current Darwin maintainers working on fixing anything in the FSF
sources?
Currently no. The transition to GPL v3 is problematic for us in the
short/mid term. :-( Longer term, we'll see how it goes."

> 2) You didn't say what the problem is.  I certainly can't figure it
> out from the links you posted.
Basically, what happened is that Apple created a Tivoized device called the
iPhone,
and Apple uses GCC (which is now under GPLv3) and Mac OS X on it.
Unfortunately, the iPhone is incompatible with GPLv3, if you want more see
the link I mentioned.