Andrei's Google Talk

[gcc-lurker]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> > Walter Bright, el  5 de agosto a las 13:34 me escribiste:
> >> mwarning wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:23:25 +0000, BCS wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> For a number of IP/legal reasons, Walter CAN'T work on LLVM or LDC.
> >>> can you please elaborate a bit?
> >>> I remember that statement has appeared before,
> >>> but I can't remember the reason that was given.
> >> Because when I've had the roomful of lawyers do their due diligence
> >> on me, saying "I never looked at the source code" is an effective
> >> defense against any claims of possible infringement. When I say
> >> that, they click their briefcases shut, say "we're done here", and
> >> leave.
> > 
> > That seems a little stupid, there are billions of open source projects,
> > and I never hear anyone giving that excuse not to contribute.
> 
> 
> Have you ever been specifically grilled by lawyers if you stole code from gcc? I 
> have. When people are going to invest a lot of money in your stuff, it better be 
> clean.

I thought the FSS owned GCC. It seems the smelly Stallman is using his evil powers and unaware henchmen to force the freedom down our throats. That's why we should use unrestrictive commercial friendly licenses only such as the Phobos/Boost alliance and BSD. Say no to (L)GPL!