gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:20:32AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     I hate to rain on your parade but that's LGPLv3, so it'll probably
>> >> be rejected...
>> >>     You'll need to try binutils 2.17 (that's the latest LGPLv2.1 copy
>> >> laying around).
>
> I'm just a FBSD user. What's all this about, v2.1 vs v3?
> Is v3 more restrictive than v2.1?
> Or is this more complex?
>
> forgive my ignorance
>
> thanks
> anton

In short, yes v3 is more restrictive that v2.1:

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html

I misread Peg's original post though, and didn't realize Peg was
creating a port -- not trying to import the change into the base
system...

-Garrett