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GCC 4.2.1 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the licensing-with-drama dept.

larry bagina writes "GCC 4.2.1 was released 4 days ago. Although this minor update would otherwise be insignificant, it will be the final GPL v2 release; all future releases will be GPL v3. Some key contributors are grumbling over this change and have privately discussed a fork to stay as GPL v2. The last time GCC forked (EGCS), the FSF conceded defeat. How will the FSF/GNU handle the GPL 3 revolt?"

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  1. Re:Fact lite submission by Unoti · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's an article that summarizes the rift. This article, at least, talks about Linus Torvalds refusing to go GPL3 because of the provision in GPL3 that discourages or prohibits DRM. Richard Stallman is on the other side: "The foundation believes that free software--that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users--is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as free and open scientific research is the only ethically satisfactory context for the conduct of mathematics, physics or biology."

  2. Re:Fact lite submission by kv9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    offtopic. that has nothing to do with GCC.

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