On 10/6/2010 1:30 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
* lm32-rtems toolchain, which uses newlib so I hope the licensing
discussions [3] can be settled soon. Again, I recommend the GCC 4.5.1
based toolchain. There are already Fedora RPM packages available at
The newlib license comments surprised me.
AFAICT the GPL-incompatible Free software is for Linux targets only, and
may be removed from the source tarball if required.
I'm guessing the non-Free code is tagged as non-Free because the
licenses don't explicitly grant rights to modify, just distribute. But
it would be nice to know for sure.
Jeff (newlib maintainer): have a look
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2010-October/001401.html
. It appears that there's some code in newlib that is unacceptable for
Fedora. If I'm reading that list right, some of it apparently belongs
to DJ.
Anthony Green
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