On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:00:33PM -0800, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Ian Lance Taylor: > > > After the e-mail flurry, here is my personal summary of the issues > > regarding the GCC Runtime Library Exception > > (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.html). > > Thanks! > > > One way to resolve this might be to say that a compilation process > > is Eligible so long as the input to GCC was produced exclusively > > using programs which are not themselves derived from GCC. I don't > > think that this approach would weaken the goals of the runtime > > library exception. > > This is still somewhat unclear as long as it's not clearly said that > for the purpose of determing eligibility in this way, portions of GCC > which are potentially covered by this exception are not taken into > account. This addition would break the vicious circle on > self-hosting, GNU-like systems.
Ian's summary of the issues has been passed on to the SC, FSF and SFLC, to determine whether any fixes are appropriate. Since legal issues are involved, it might take a while, but they are paying attention to the concerns raised.
