I agree with Geir. On 12/4/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2005, at 7:31 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 06:33:13PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >> On Dec 3, 2005, at 5:23 PM, David N. Welton wrote: > >> > >>> Perhaps the difference is that with the bits and pieces of gcc that > >>> you > >>> get, you don't even realize that you have them, which is different > >>> from > >>> noting that you have several .jar files floating around in your > >>> download that aren't under the same terms as the rest of the code. > >>> > >> > >> I think a different way to say it, one that is clearer for my > >> thinking, is that there is no dependence in the code, or on having to > >> use GCC - a user can take the source and recompile with some other > >> compiler to get working software. > >> > > > > Sure, but the ASF has chosen to ship software using GPL+linking > > exception > > licensed code, and has beeing doing so for years, as I have shown, > > without any > > negative results. The ASF has a choice not to ship the binaries, or to > > ship them built with a different compiler, or to write their own > > compiler, > > but it chose not to, because obviously GPL+linking exception is > > good enough > > for what the ASF (and any $PROPRIETARY_SOFTWARE_VENDOR using gcc) > > does, or > > it would not be doing it. > > > > So, could the board please ratify the existing, and well-working > > practice of > > the ASF shipping code using GPL+linking exception licensed code as > > obviosly, trivially OK? That should not be too hard to get done > > quickly. > > Pragmatism over ideology, and all that. That's why we are here, right? > > Let me start by noting (hopefully unnecessarily at this point) that > I'm very interested in solving the licensing issues. > > That said, I think that to be fair, we need to distinguish between > "using" in the sense of what GCC is doing - a tool outside the scope > of effort of the project enabling some behavior in a standard and non- > intrusive way (just like we don't care about the license of the OS we > run on), and "using" in the sense of developers of a project making a > conscious decision to design and implement software with a dependency. > > geir > > -- > Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
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