RE: [tlug] Richard Stallman (FSF) in Tokyo Wed, Oct 24th

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J. Turnbull
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:28 AM
> 
> emiddleton@example.com writes:
> 
>  > There is a precedent, and a workable solution.
> 
> This is not workable.  We're talking about GCC and the binutils,
> remember.
> 
>  > I remember similar issues when the GNU Free Documentation Licenses
>  > was found to be incompatible with DFSG[2].
> 
> Sure, but putting the GCC docs into nonfree is not the same as forking
> the GCC distribution.  PGCC and egcs were bad enough, but at least the
> licenses were compatible.
> 

My question though, is do they plan to do anything to
the license to make GCC unusable for non-free projects,
or will it continue to be useable as long as nothing
other than the C library itself is linked against?

As far as they have gone so far, that is about the only
way to make the whole thing any less free.

-- 
Ken