Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

2008-09-24 Thread Yuhong Bao
That is why I'm CCing someone from Apple. -- From: "Ian Lance Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:47 PM To: "Yuhong Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <[EM

RE: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

2008-09-24 Thread Yuhong Bao
it is locking Apple out of an entire body of FOSS code. Yuhong bao > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:14:42 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gcc@gcc.gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

2008-09-23 Thread Yuhong Bao
1) This is offtopic. Yeah, but I want to bring this up because I can tell it is affecting GCC development. From http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-02/msg00523.html: "> If someone steps forward, are you allowed to follow the patches list We can't read the patches nor gcc list. and give feedback an

Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles

2008-09-23 Thread Yuhong Bao
e for Apple. BTW, the GPLv2 has none of the clauses that cause the trouble Apple is facing with the GPLv3 and the iPhone, so it is OK. Yuhong Bao