On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:18 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general > feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD > and ports. The only reason I can see from searching is a need to get > away from gcc (which is tried and tested since the beginning of time) > which is now apparently GPLv3. > > Can someone offer some clarity as to the importance of this? I'm > guessing the that stepping away from GPL is generally a good thing, > especially if there is something similar with similar license > structure to BSD; I just can't understand the rush of it. > > Even under GPL anything built using gcc can be licensed as you like, > so I doubt it could be that.
It is that. I don't know the details, but GPLv3 is sufficiently more viral that recent gcc versions can't be used as the base system compiler. We're currently stuck with a version from 2007. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
