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I can't find it right now, but there's a pretty interesting thread from the GCC mailing lists where RMS states explicitly that parts of GCC are very tightly cou
by arnsholt 12y ago
I can't find it right now, but there's a pretty interesting thread from the GCC mailing lists where RMS states explicitly that parts of GCC are very tightly coupled, by design, precisely to make it hard to reuse the code-generation backend in non-free software.
I believe the rationale is that such a reuse would be very hard to find, much less prove conclusively.
- tedks 12y agoI can't believe this is true, given that the FSF was able to get Apple to release it's Objective-C implementation without even a lawsuit. (For some background, search objective-c on this page: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...)