Re: GCC 4.4 run-time license and non-GPLv3 compilers

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 22.11.2009 19:49, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Matthias Klose:
>
> > On 21.11.2009 06:20, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > * Steve Langasek:
> > >
> > > > It's been suggested to me that it might help Debian move forward on this
> > > > issue if I provide some background on why Canonical has chosen to not regard
> > > > this issue as critical for Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > My personal impression is that Debian does not view this issue as
> > > critical, either.  Switching the GCC default hasn't happened for other
> > > reasons.
> >
> > Which are these reasons?
>
> Uhm, aren't you more qualified than me to answer that?
>
> I think we had established quite some time ago that the licensing
> issue should not be considered a blocker.

that was before the concerns of a) getting ftpmaster involved, and b) the 
discussion about GPLv2 GPLv3+exception compatibility on lwn.net. I'm upload 
gcc-defaults now, pointing to 4.4 on all architectures. port maintainers didn't 
raise any objections.

  Matthias