Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC?

Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by froydnj on Friday September 10, 2010 @02:02PM (#1679621)

Just because Apple has a copyright assignment on file (i.e. saying that they are able to assign copyright to the FSF) does not mean that every piece of code Apple writes--even if it's connected to GCC--is assigned to the FSF.

So Apple can write GCC patches, Apple can release GCC patches, but it does not follow that those patches are assigned. I guess that means they've actively stopped.

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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by zppx on Friday September 10, 2010 @03:12PM (#1679867)

Sort of the relationship of Android with the Linux kernel, for me this is the same as publishing a GPLed patch to OpenSSH or something like that, this is immense disrespect towards the developer community of a project, which does have its culture.

FSF has done this as well by changing the license of their software from GPL2/LGPL2 to GPL3/LGPL3 and turning the GameSWF (released under public domain) into the GPLed Gnash.

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Re:Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC? by loup-vaillant on Saturday September 11, 2010 @02:30AM (#1681103)

Are you saying that forks are rude? But they're the point of both Free Software and Open Source!

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