Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
It's sad, but I think that there is need for the SC to take action on this.
I personally don't think there is any need to remove them as
maintainers until the FSF finally produces the GPLv3 version of the
runtime library license. At that point Apple will be out of excuses,
and will have to finally decide in or out on future gcc development.
I am probably not alone to be extremely interested in understanding more
clearly what is happening on the runtime library license side,
especially with relation to plugins.
The recent thread http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-09/msg00292.html
"Defining a common plugin machinery" is particularly concerned with this
issue (of runtime library license). I'm guessing that since Diego
Novillo asked something, he was expecting/dreaming/knowing? about some
evolution on this.
Is it top secret information only available to some few members of the
Steering Committee, or is some information sharable on this list? Just
knowing that indeed a runtime library license will be finalized before
Christmas (ie in 2008) and that GPL-ed plugins will be somehow "blessed"
by the SC (or is it the FSF) will be a big relief.
Is something happening on runtime library license, or is there some
unexpected issue which affects existing branches experimenting plugins
(e.g. MELT)?
The only thing I know about runtime library license is the stuff I heard
and read at the june 2008 GCC summit, and I am guessing that a lot of
things happened since. IIRC, I remember having heard in june 2008 that
we have only months, not years, to wait (I did not understood exactly
for what, but it was runtime licence related).
In particular, if dlopen-ing GPL-ed (and even FSF copyright-ed) code is
still a taboo in GCC, I would be glad to be informed...
[I'm writing in some proposals, to get money to work on GCC, that
plugins are indeed appearing in GCC; I hope that I am not entirely wrong]
Regards.
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