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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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