Richard Stallman writes:
What front-end is this? I know nothing about it as yet.
If the GPL is being violated for GCC, the FSF needs to take action.
But we need to know the facts first.
Would someone please send me a description of the situation?
As I understand it, DEC SRC (now part of Compaq of course) released a
Modula-3 frontend which uses GCC as a backend, with some kind of funny
licence. I know about it because apparently the Cambridge computer
lab did some further work on it:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/m3doc/linux/cambridge.html
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html
The DEC SRC copyright is not GPL-compatible but appears to be intended
to be at least somewhat free. Persuading them to GPL it might be
possible. I enclose a copy.
My apologies for assuming you (RMS) knew about this and not telling
you about it.
Ian.
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