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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:39:17 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d0901210139o4944c7ffw846ca7a6ecfc90b7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090121092901.GA2405@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:20:32AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     I hate to rain on your parade but that's LGPLv3, so it'll probably
>> >> be rejected...
>> >>     You'll need to try binutils 2.17 (that's the latest LGPLv2.1 copy
>> >> laying around).
>
> I'm just a FBSD user. What's all this about, v2.1 vs v3?
> Is v3 more restrictive than v2.1?
> Or is this more complex?
>
> forgive my ignorance
>
> thanks
> anton

In short, yes v3 is more restrictive that v2.1:

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html

I misread Peg's original post though, and didn't realize Peg was
creating a port -- not trying to import the change into the base
system...

-Garrett



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