[TriLUG] GPLv3 -- What do you think?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 3/12/06, Ian Kilgore <ian at trilug.org> wrote:
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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.)
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> 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.

Ian, you are, indeed, correct.  Barry has it completely wrong.
Gcc can be and, indeed, is used to compile non GPL programs every
day.  The most vivid example of this is that the entire OS X system
is compiled with gcc and it is certainly not GPL.

Cheers,
Tanner
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