Alternatives to gcc

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 31 22:05:51 PST 2009


"Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at tutopia.com> writes:
> - Replacing groff with something less restricted that doesn't require
> C++: Heirloom-doctools may be an option.

You're proposing replacing GPLv2 stuff with CDDL'ed stuff?

    $ cd heirloom-doctools-080407> grep -l -R CDDL * | wc -l
         217

The last time I asked $WORK's lawyers, GPLv2 was acceptable to
*carefully* ship with our product.  CDDL was forbidden (as is GPLv3).

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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