Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
Ramanraj K said on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:06:27AM +0530,:
I actually came across the Microsoft site that offered gcc for it's UNIX tools. I couldn't believe it when I saw it ...
No, thanks. I cannot take credit, because it is a forwarded message:
,------------ Original Message -------- | Subject: Re: RE.Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows | Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:27:10 -0600 | From: Jon Drews jon.drews@gmail.com | Reply-To: Jon Drews jon.drews@gmail.com | To: estover@olc.edu | CC:freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org | References:1098590132.32627.20.camel@red `----
Actually, this story is an excellent illustration of why the GNU GPL
> is better than BSD (the license). If the GCC were under a BSD style > free non-copyleft license, customers would have been left holding yet > another `extension' in their hands.
I am sure FreeBSD Developers may embrace the GPL whole heartedly, or we may get to see copyleft clauses in the FreeBSD license.