Le 2 oct. 2011 à 16:47, Andrea D'Amore <and.dam...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:17, vincent habchi <vi...@macports.org> wrote: >> We can’t count on Apple helping us, since they are forbidden to touch every >> GPL v.3 tool. > > Why is this? Apple politics. When GPL v3 went out, I was involved with the NetBSD project, and there was also a lot of discussions about it, up to the point of thinking about abandoning Gcc altogether. I switched to MacOS before the case was settled down. The GPL v3 is less permissive and much more obscure, legally, than the v.2. Apple did not hesitate for a long time: they decided to quit using all GPLv3, that’s why you never got a GCC newer than 4.2; accidentally, sometime later I reported a bug about being unable to compile GCC, and I was told engineering couldn't help me because they were forbidden to use or even download GPLv3 tools. I don’t think Jobs’ departure will alter this course… Vincent _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
