Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?)

Pedro F. Giffuni giffunip at tutopia.com
Sun Jan 11 17:21:36 PST 2009


( Sorry everyone about my email not wrapping text anymore :( )

----- Original Message ----

> 
> I never took care about GPLv2 and v3
> > differences but know, this seems to come to relevance in some way.
> 
> I don't seem to understand this.  Why should gpl v3 affect the OS?  The
> output of the compiler isn't affected by the license.  Is it?
> 


Perhaps we just want to avoid trouble to our commercial co-developers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSF_vs._Cisco

cheers,

    Pedro.


      


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