Nicola, I believe what you're saying here about David's libobjc2 runtime is just as much FUD as what he said about GCC's ObjC. He should discuss this with you further, but I don't think we have a problem here.
GC On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Nicola Pero <nicola.p...@meta-innovation.com> wrote: > >>> GNU ObjC has so few users that it seems hardly worth the effort to upgrade >>> the >>> GNU ObjC front end to ObjC 2.0. And there are other issues: >> >> Translation: The GNU project doesn't care about GNUstep. > > The GNU project is a lot of people. One person on the GCC mailing list wasn't > interested in Objective-C support. Many others were and are. I am. ;-) > > >> We already have an MIT-licensed runtime in svn that implements the ObjC 2 >> runtime >> features and works with GNUstep, so this isn't a problem. > > "libobjc2" is a derivative work of libobjc which is an FSF GNU GPL v2+ piece > of work, > so I'm not sure why you say it's a MIT-licensed runtime. If you wanted a > MIT-licensed > runtime you should have started from scratch instead of scavenging the old > FSF GNU > runtime. > > I'm actually quite confused as to why you worked on "libobjc2" now: I thought > you were working > on libobjc because you meant to contribute changes back to the official FSF > GNU runtime, > but you never have, and now claim your libobjc derivative is independent and > no longer GNU GPL v2+, > which I'm confused about (I guess as I'm not a lawyer) but puts your runtime > (in my view) > in a legal limbo to say the least. > > I'm not a lawyer though. > > Anyway, I have nothing against "libobjc2" per se (except that you need to > sort out your license) > as I think GNUstep should support as many free Objective-C compilers and > runtimes as possible. > I think we all hope that there are, and will be, may free Objective-C > compilers and runtimes > to choose from. :-) > > I personally do want to use the FSF GCC and runtime library, but that's > because one of the very > few organizations I trust is the FSF. I don't trust Apple. ;-) > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > Gnustep-dev@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
