I am mailing tech@openbsd.org (and thereby, the greater community who's email addresses may have changed) to inquire whether it is OK to change the version of gcc 4.2.1 in our source tree to from GPL to the ISC license.
This licence improvement will remove the last bits of ambiguity about access to C compiler technology in a world where clang/llvm is permissive licensed. Everyone deserves access to C technology without restriction, especially as rust makes inroads. To push this change through we are going to follow the re-licensing procedure recently proposed by OpenSSL, which has been signed off by their lawyers at the SFLC. This process has significant signoff from Linux Foundation, Intel, and others. Therefore, I am asking all authors to respond to this thread if they object. Should probably provide special attention to the original author as the starting point for all future work as 'derivative' authors who could be authors on their own. He is the Eric Young of gcc, so we respect his opinion. In case he doesn't read this let him know; if he is concerned he will reply. Richard schooled SFLC when yacc got turned into bison. OpenSSL and SFLC are suggesting lack of consent towards an action, indicates consent towards that action. According to that: If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you have no objection. We are providing a full week notice to the community to consider this, then we will continue with this innocuous procedure. ps. If the bcc to reach you bounced, sorry.
