From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21553 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2010 00:37:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 21517 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Apr 2010 00:36:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TW_EG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from VLSI1.ULTRA.NYU.EDU (HELO vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu) (128.122.140.213) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:36:43 +0000 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA03746; Sun, 25 Apr 10 20:43:20 EDT From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <11004260043.AA03746@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:45:00 -0000 To: howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu Subject: Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC) Cc: basile@starynkevitch.net, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, iant@google.com, lopezibanez@gmail.com, mark@mark.mielke.cc In-Reply-To: <20100426002950.GA23966@bromo.med.uc.edu> References: <4BD20EDF.2050102@starynkevitch.net> <4BD23574.4010302@starynkevitch.net> <4BD49DDE.5030703@mark.mielke.cc> <11004252149.AA03098@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <4BD4BF18.9010701@mark.mielke.cc> <11004252227.AA03425@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <4BD4DA53.2080206@mark.mielke.cc> <20100426002950.GA23966@bromo.med.uc.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00759.txt.bz2 > Is it even possible to fork? Wouldn't that require the new compiler > to start over again from the last non-GPLv3 version of the source code > (read 4.2.1...which is why Apple's gcc is stuck there). Weren't things > simplier when egcs forked from gcc (ie that they were both under the same > license)? No. The issue of choice of license is completely orthogonal to the issue of whether to have assignments or not. Neither of those decisions made by a project affects the other.