Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 29, 2006 04:51 AM
Yep. Richard Stallman has, on more than one occasion, talked about how C++ support became part of GCC. It seems that the company that wrote the C++ support wanted to keep it proprietary. However, they couldn't and make it part of GCC, because of the GPL (GCC, unlike glibc, is GPL'd, not LGPL'd). Thus, they knew that they had something useless.
The result: this company released the C++ support under the GPL, and we all now benefit. If GCC had been under a BSD-type license, this company would've had no incentive to do that.
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Re:Don't moan about Sun
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 29, 2006 04:51 AMThe result: this company released the C++ support under the GPL, and we all now benefit. If GCC had been under a BSD-type license, this company would've had no incentive to do that.
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