GCC Summit
June 19th, 2008
Our presentation on Treehydra and Dehydra GCC plugins was received well at the summit.
The big news is that FSF is working on license changes to allow GPL-only GCC plugins. I’m looking forward to having our work be compatible with future GCC without any patching.
In a few minutes we’ll be having a meeting with users of other plugin frameworks to have an initial discussion on a common API. I’m working on forward porting my patches, so they can start getting reviewed ahead of license changes.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:48 am
GPL-only? How can they forbid a multiple-licensing scheme for the actual code, even if you couldn’t *use* the actual code under a non-GPL license?
June 24th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Jeff,
I’m not into this lawyer stuff, I was just posting the informal interpretation that I was given.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Okay, no worries.
Probably just filtered through their worldview, then, and in any case not that important anyway…
August 10th, 2008 at 2:46 am
this is a good news.. any progress here? where can i get a preview and be involved in more discussion?