From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
To: rth@cygnus.com
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 05:15:00 -0000
Message-id: <10011021330.AA08483@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00135.html

    The fact of the matter is that the development was very open, at
    least to anyone who had proper Intel paperwork.  HP did the initial
    gcc and binutils work; Cygnus refined both and began optimization
    work; folks from CERN, Intel, IBM, SGI, SuSE, TurboLinux, and VA
    were testing new code regularly.

But there's no legal way to restrict GPL'ed material to "those who had the
proper Intel paperwork"!