Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:53:40 +0100 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) Message-ID: <20090128155340.GA75143@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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pluknet wrote: > I found this article today. It answers some questions about GPLv3. > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gcc-exception-faq.html Indeed this is exactly what i said, there are exemptions for code that the compiler brings into the executable (notably this is particularly the case for g++) such that using gcc has absolutely no bearing on the license of the resulting binary. Hence switching to a GPL V3 version of gcc has zero impact on the BSD character of FreeBSD. I don't know if the same is true for binutils however. -- Michel TALON
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