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I don't think that would be appropriate since Golang isn't (to my knowledge) under the GNU license. Maybe gocc?
by sdrothrock 7y ago
I don't think that would be appropriate since Golang isn't (to my knowledge) under the GNU license.
Maybe gocc?
- jerf 7y agoI think you may misunderstand the nature of the post: https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo It's a thing that exists, not a proposal.
- sdrothrock 7y agoI did, in fact! Thanks. :) I thought it was just spitballing an alternative name.
- slrz 7y agoSoftware licenses don't really matter if you implement the Go language spec with your own code. It's only when you want to share code with other implementations that software licensing enters the picture. Gccgo manages to share most of the standard library with the golang.org implementation, so they appear to have the licensing figured out.
- sdrothrock 7y agoI brought up the licensing originally since I thought they were spitballing a name and the "g" in "gcc" originally stands for "GNU." So I was saying (mostly tongue-in-cheek) that it probably wouldn't be appropriate. Sorry for the confusion, and I appreciate the clarification here too. :)