[TriLUG] GPLv3 -- What do you think?

Ian Kilgore ian at trilug.org
Sun Mar 12 23:11:15 EST 2006


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Barry Gaskins wrote:
|    I think the big question will be how many Open Source projects will get
| forked over this.  If gcc converts to version 3 then anyone who wants
to use
| the latest gcc would need to convert to version 3 (or continue developing
| the old gcc under a new branch with a version 2 license.)

Really?  Correct me if I'm wrong (It's likely ;]), but I thought that
when code is compiled by gcc, if it is not a modification of gcc itself,
it is not bound by gcc's license.
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