Apple-employed maintainers (was Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles)

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 24, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>> The SC knows of the issue
>>
>> Still, after six months it would be nice to have a clearer idea of  
>> what
>> will happen with respect to Darwin/ObjC, especially since the  
>> previous
>> statement (which I suppose was "as clear as" Mike could do) was  
>> buried
>> under an unrelated thread.
>>
>> Paolo
>
> Do we know if Apple still intends to update the ObjC in FSF gcc to  
> v2.0?
>                Jack

We don't have any short-term plans to do so.  However, all the code  
for ObjC 2.0 and even the new C Blocks feature is available in the  
llvm-gcc repository.  One potential issue is that while Apple has a  
blanket copyright assignment with the FSF, I don't know whether code  
in the llvm-gcc repo is auto-assigned to the FSF.

-Chris