Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:11:41AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> Right.  However, the wording I saw was much broader than just the  
> plugin model.  It was vague and poorly worded, and you could interpret  
> it as saying that use of a non-GPL assembler or linker was also not  
> allowed to build or link the libraries.

That's the version that was dumped, exactly for the reasons you state.