Subject: Re: upgrading GCC 4.1 branch
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/2008 13:33:26
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:57:41 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:35:52PM -0800, Tom Spindler wrote:
> > > > And, why don't we go straight to 4.2.3? :)
> > >
> > > GPLv3 and GCC 4.2 regressions.
> >
> > Could you please enumerate what the GPLv3 issues actually are?
> > There was some talk about binutils' libbfd being GPLv3, which is
> > noxious - but the last time I checked the gcc tree, none of
> > {libgcc, crt?.o, et al} were GPLv3'ed.
>
> It doesn't cover libgcc and crt*, but it is still present for the rest
> of GCC. I would prefer we don't set a precedence, IMO.
>
Does this mean that we're forever frozen in our version of gcc?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb