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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by protomyth on Friday September 10, 2010 @11:05AM (#1679046)
direct links to thread: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-09/msg00109.html

"Apple does not have an internal process to assign code to the FSF anymore. I would focus on the code that is already assigned to the FSF." http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-09/msg00132.html

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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by pohl on Friday September 10, 2010 @11:19AM (#1679097)
So let's say a man asks for some food, and Apple says "well, we've got some beef jerky here, but I know you're a strict vegan so you'd probably be more interested in the tofu we set aside for you yesterday", and the headline is "Apple blocks starving man from food".
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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by jwhitlark on Friday September 10, 2010 @11:58AM (#1679238)
Er, no. Apple built off the existing code base. This isn't charity, they chose to use free software in the first place.

And actually, when they made that choice, it was Apple that was starving. But I'll let someone else draw up the parable. ;-)

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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by pohl on Friday September 10, 2010 @12:16PM (#1679274)
Actually actually, it was NeXT who made that choice.

And the license itself does not require copyright assignment. Rather, the FSF does.

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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by wooster on Friday September 10, 2010 @02:35PM (#1679746)
... and then FSF changed the license. GCC is under GPLv3 now, no?
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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by avar on Friday September 10, 2010 @11:14AM (#1679081)
Thread in context: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-09/threads.html#00109
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