On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:33:19AM +0930, Ron wrote:
>
> When dwarf is Ready, we should probably switch to it, but until it
> is, we should probably sit tight on sjlj.
Ok, we'll wait then.
> Robert, do you know anything about licence trouble in gcc 4.4?
> Apparently there is some GPLv3 taint in there now which may make
> trouble for GPLv2 apps and maybe others, but I haven't heard
> anything yet on if/how this will be resolved ...
I don't think there's any trouble. I know they recently added a plugin
API for GCC, and changed their license model so that copyleft extends to
plugins.
I think this amounts to:
- Switch from LGPL to GPL.
- Add a license exception [1] that allows using GCC to compile code that
would otherwise violate the GPL (and linking it with libgcc, etc).
I could be missing some detail though, but I have no reason to believe they
extended the copyleft to programs compiled with GCC.
[1] http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-01-gcc-exception
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