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[Gary Dunn]

Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn <knowtree at aloha.com> wrote:
>
>> When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is
>4.2.1.
>> The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011.
>>
>
>Probably never, as GPL 3 code isn't allowed in the base system. 
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Can someone point me to an official position statement on this ban on GPL3 code in FreeBSD? Doesn't seem right to me. And please, no GPL flame wars.
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