At 20:19 31/03/2011, Gary Dunn wrote:
Can someone point me to an official position statement on this ban
on GPL3 code in FreeBSD? Doesn't seem right to me. And please, no
GPL flame wars.
Don't know if there were an official Some links that may be interesting:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7035
http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd9.html "CLANG / LLVM compiler" entry
http://www.links.org/?p=518 "Will GPLv3 Kill GPL?"
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility "GPLv2
compatible with GPLv3?"
http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/175.en.html
Apple and some other companies made the switch from gcc to llvm some
years ago, in Apple case, because gnu/fsf forced to make all
objective-c compiler developed by Apple for gcc open source, because
gcc was GPL (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1390172)
Resuming, or my resume, GPLv3 is politically incorrect for a BSD
project, it's preferred BSD tools, made by BSD community for BSD
community and (as licence allows it) by extension everyone than GPLv3
tools made for GNU/FSF and (as licence don't permit share) only for them.
HTH
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