Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Boris Veytsman <borisv@lk.net> writes:

> To say the truth, it is ok to have kgcc, egcs, gcc on the same
> system. The problem is, you need to decide what is *the* $CC for each
> program.

And if it's posix, there's c89, which is guaranteed on Posix systems
to be the ANSI C compiler.  

But there is no reason to prevent a system administrator, site, user,
or group of people, from being non-Posix compliant, and having a
program called c89 which is deviant from ANSI C in some respects.
The system would not be Posix-compliant any more, but so what?  Isn't
it for the users and administrators of the system to decide if they
want a Posix compliant system?

The one thing that would be a disaster is if GCC tried to enforce
Posix naming conventions through license terms!  But this is exactly
what latex is doing...


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