Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:27:19PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: License and copyright are one and the same. GPL license relies on copyright law, just like almost any other open source license there is, be it BSD, Artistic or

Re: GPL2 vs. GPL3

2009-04-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/4/14 Michael Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com: There are actually four licenses to consider. Each is different from the others in significant ways; it would be a terrible mistake to choose any of them without fully understanding the consequences of one's choice: GPL2 only GPL2 or any

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:41:08AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Maybe taking derived code (e.g. including new code), one could write only the license of aggregate work (thus one later license), I think so. I agree it could be better to list them explicitly, but upstream doesn't want that.

Re: GCC 4.4 run-time license and non-GPLv3 compilers

2009-04-15 Thread Joe Smith
Stéphane Glondu st...@glondu.net wrote: So one could even make a proprietary compiler using C as an intermediate langage, and GCC for the final stage, I guess. Comeau C++'s GNU/Linux builds do exactly that. (In general it uses the local C compiler as a slightly higher level assembler. This