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

2009-04-15 Thread Joe Smith
"Stéphane Glondu" 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 saves them the

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: GPL2 vs. GPL3

2009-04-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/4/14 Michael Crawford : > 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 later version > G