Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

[Yuhong Bao]

That is why I'm CCing someone from Apple.

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From: "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@google.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:47 PM
To: "Yuhong Bao" <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <bonzini@gnu.org>; <mrs@apple.com>; <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

> Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
>> BTW, one of the reason I posted this was that I wanted to privately
>> talk about the politics behind this issue with someone internal to
>> Apple, and forward some of that to RMS and the FSF. Can this be done
>> or is the politics all under NDA?
> 
> Well, good luck.  The people you need to talk to, with respect to
> Apple and GPLv3, are not reading this mailing list.  We've already
> talked to some of them, and the situation as I understand it is what I
> already outlined, with the obvious proviso that I do not work at
> Apple.  A couple of people from Apple have now commented on this
> thread; go ahead and mail them directly.
> 
> Ian
>