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The philosophy went farther than, "We want GCC plugins to be free." It went to, "We want GCC plugins to be basically impossible, because otherwise the risk of
by dietrichepp 11y ago
The philosophy went farther than, "We want GCC plugins to be free." It went to, "We want GCC plugins to be basically impossible, because otherwise the risk of non-free plugins is too high."
So, the FSF sacrificed technical needs in order to serve philosophical goals.
- fixermark 11y agoAnd in essence, the market is interpreting onerous licensing as damage and routing around it (to bastardize a famous quote about Usenet) ;)