On 22.04.2015 08:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Apr 22, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
>>
>> You're right. The proper solution would be to add the old driver-driver back 
>> to FSF GCC and get it upstreamed, instead of relying even more on muniversal.
>>
>> Personally, I do not wish to do so, for multiple reasons.
> 
> Too bad Apple didn't contribute the code back to FSF. Or maybe they did and 
> they didn't accept it for some reason? I don't know. But this is the kind of 
> thing I hate about forking projects.

FSF GCC is licensed as GPLv3. Apple does explicitly not allow usage of its code 
under GPLv3 for some reason I have forgotten, but only GPLv2.

There might have been other (technical) reasons for rejecting the changes Apple 
did to GCC, but AFAIK that was the biggest disagreement.



Mihai


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