From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 15:53:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB021065673 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:53:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E958FC0C for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id n0SFrfM3061694 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:53:42 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 166 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7327E89CF6 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:53:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 4821151; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:53:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:53:40 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090128155340.GA75143@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.166]); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:53:42 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/8914/Wed Jan 28 07:40:00 2009 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 49807F85.004 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 49807F85.004/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 49807F85.004 on jchkmail.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.023 -> S=0.023 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:36:09 +0000 Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:53:44 -0000 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