On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:31:57PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:33:19AM +0930, Ron wrote: > > 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
Yeah, I'm not up on the full details, all I've really been able to find is the sparse discussion in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/07/msg00041.html But that does give me the impression there is still something people have missed, though I also doubt that was the original intention ... Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
