On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 03:40:43PM +0200, grischka wrote: > >... and since I got permission from Fabrice to use his original > >tcc code under a BSD license ... > > Actually it's a long standing offer from Fabrice, also repeated > lately on the occasion of the 0.9.26 release. > > So the questions is: Do you people want, is it possible, what > would it take - to change our tinycc code's license from LGPL > to a BSD-like one (such as below).
I am interested in a quality C compiler which is implemented in C. Therefore gcc and clang which both require C++ aren't an option. I think Rob's idea of combining Fabrice's BSD licensed Tiny Code Generator (TCG) with tinycc's frontend is great and could fit the bill. Unfortunately I currently lack both the time and probably also the knowledge to work on it myself. Independent of that I think a BSD licensed tinycc would probably get more people interested. The fear of proprietary forks seems unfounded because there is already a mature BSD licensed C compiler (clang) available for people to base their work on. So in summary I would prefere the BSD license. Marc -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0 _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel