Here's the problem: the FSF doesn't really want to permit plugins.
There are a lot of strong statements in this thread, but the truth is
that (a) the new run-time library license will probably be available
very soon (my guess is time measured in weeks) (b) it will allow
GPL-compatible plugins,
This means that you couldn't use *GCC* if you
did something the FSF found objectionable, closing an easy
work-around.
This doesn't work, because it breaks out of the basic framework of
copyright law. Nobody signs anything or accepts any terms in order to
use gcc. The FSF wants to stop
On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
This means that you couldn't use *GCC* if you
did something the FSF found objectionable, closing an easy
work-around.
This doesn't work, because it breaks out of the basic framework of
copyright law. Nobody signs anything or accepts any
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
Off-topic, but I feel this is important, since Apple contributed to gcc,
and it is licensed under GPLv3 now.
The license of GCC does not matter, unless the iPhone includes a copy of
GCC's binaries for a recent-enough version. In which case, of course,
Apple would be violating the GPLv3 and you
Yuhong Bao wrote:
and Apple uses GCC (which is now under GPLv3) and Mac OS X on it.
Unfortunately, the iPhone is incompatible with GPLv3, if you want more see
the link I mentioned.
Apple does not use a GPLv3 version of GCC. All GPL sources used in the
iPhone, are, as far as I know, available
Peter O'Gorman wrote:
Yuhong Bao wrote:
and Apple uses GCC (which is now under GPLv3) and Mac OS X on it.
Unfortunately, the iPhone is incompatible with GPLv3, if you want more see
the link I mentioned.
Apple does not use a GPLv3 version of GCC.
Ah, actually I think I now see the OP's
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:47:18AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Peter O'Gorman wrote:
Yuhong Bao wrote:
and Apple uses GCC (which is now under GPLv3) and Mac OS X on it.
Unfortunately, the iPhone is incompatible with GPLv3, if you want more see
the link I mentioned.
Apple does not use
Yuhong Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Well at least that explains their total inactivity in the last year. Is Dale
the one still allowed to read the gcc-patches mailing list?
No, that would be Stan just because he's not at Apple.
It must be said also that Mike Stump accepted to review/discuss
Darwin/ObjC patches that he was CCed
Paolo Bonzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ah, actually I think I now see the OP's point. Apple is scared of the
GPLv3 because the iPhone might violate it, so they are not contributing
to anything that falls under the GPLv3.
...
1) does it make sense to keep a maintainer category that is
However if GPLv3 is such a huge issue
at Apple, it does make one wonder if llvm will ever see a gcc front-end
newer
than the current 4.2 one.
The LLVM folks are writing a new frontend anyhow. In the future they
presumably plan to stop using the gcc frontend. gcc's code is so
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.
Basile STARYNKEVITCH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:33:35PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Well at least that explains their total inactivity in the last year. Is Dale
the one still allowed to read the gcc-patches mailing list?
No, that would be Stan just because he's not at Apple.
It must be said also that Mike
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basile STARYNKEVITCH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
On Sep 24, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
The SC knows of the issue
Still, after six months it would be nice to have a clearer idea of
what
will happen with respect to Darwin/ObjC, especially since the
previous
statement (which I suppose was as clear as Mike could do) was
buried
On Sep 24, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
fix the problem. My understanding of Apple's current position is that
they won't take any action until they see the final version of the gcc
runtime license.
Basically, what happened is that Apple created a Tivoized device
called the
On Sep 24, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Duncan Sands wrote:
However if GPLv3 is such a huge issue
at Apple, it does make one wonder if llvm will ever see a gcc
front-end newer
than the current 4.2 one.
The LLVM folks are writing a new frontend anyhow. In the future they
presumably plan to stop
On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:
requirements on that code.
I'm not speaking for Apple here, and I am not a lawyer. However,
the last draft of the runtime library exception clause (which is
quite old by now)
I'm sorry, to be clear, I meant the last draft *that I saw*
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:05:37AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:
requirements on that code.
I'm not speaking for Apple here, and I am not a lawyer. However,
the last draft of the runtime library exception clause (which is
quite old
NightStrike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a simple technique which anybody is free to use to make this
happen much faster: make a large donation to the SFLC and/or the FSF,
contingent on this issue being finished. In the absence of that, it
will happen in the time that people have
Chris Lattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sep 24, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
fix the problem. My understanding of Apple's current position is that
they won't take any action until they see the final version of the gcc
runtime license.
Basically, what happened is that Apple
Chris Lattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not speaking for Apple here, and I am not a lawyer. However, the
last draft of the runtime library exception clause (which is quite old
by now) imposed licensing restrictions on the executables generated by
GCC (due to linked runtime libraries)
On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
I'm not speaking for Apple here, and I am not a lawyer. However, the
last draft of the runtime library exception clause (which is quite
old
by now) imposed licensing restrictions on the executables generated
by
GCC (due to linked runtime
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:11:41AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
Right. However, the wording I saw was much broader than just the
plugin model. It was vague and poorly worded, and you could interpret
it as saying that use of a non-GPL assembler or linker was also not
allowed to build or
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Joe Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:11:41AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
Right. However, the wording I saw was much broader than just the
plugin model. It was vague and poorly worded, and you could interpret
it as saying that use of a
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
NightStrike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a simple technique which anybody is free to use to make this
happen much faster: make a large donation to the SFLC and/or the FSF,
contingent on this issue being finished. In the absence of that, it
will happen in the time
On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Joe Buck wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:11:41AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
Right. However, the wording I saw was much broader than just the
plugin model. It was vague and poorly worded, and you could
interpret
it as saying that use of a non-GPL assembler
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apple's dislike of GPLv3 is a problem for gcc, yes.
Well, excuse me for being a-political, but I don't see this problem.
The relationship between GCC and Apple has never been really good
AFAIK, but that hasn't hampered
Steven Bosscher wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apple's dislike of GPLv3 is a problem for gcc, yes.
Well, excuse me for being a-political, but I don't see this problem.
The relationship between GCC and Apple has never been really good
AFAIK,
, it is locking Apple out of an
entire body of FOSS code.
Yuhong bao
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:14:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: Apple, iPhone
Yuhong Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BTW, one of the reason I posted this was that I wanted to privately
talk about the politics behind this issue with someone internal to
Apple, and forward some of that to RMS and the FSF. Can this be done
or is the politics all under NDA?
Well, good luck.
Chris Lattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My personal feeling on the matter is that it seems very strange to
talk about *compiler plugins* in the license for *runtime libraries*.
Considering that there are already widely available alternative
libraries (e.g. the apache stdc++ library and many
On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Chris Lattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My personal feeling on the matter is that it seems very strange to
talk about *compiler plugins* in the license for *runtime libraries*.
Considering that there are already widely available
Off-topic, but I feel this is important, since Apple contributed to gcc, and
it is licensed under GPLv3 now.
In particular, this was inspired by this thread on the gcc mailing lists:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-02/msg00520.html
Notice that I CCed an Apple-internal email address extracted from
Yuhong Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Off-topic, but I feel this is important, since Apple contributed to gcc, and
it is licensed under GPLv3 now.
In particular, this was inspired by this thread on the gcc mailing lists:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-02/msg00520.html
Notice that I CCed an
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