FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system

Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by kps on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:09AM (#22475686)

And that, along with FSF's earlier refusal to accept patches to let gcc build for the Mac, may be the reason LLVM got the support it did. Two egotistical jerks butt heads, and then one of them found a billion dollars at his fingertips.

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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by monocasa on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:17AM (#22475793)

Do you have a link to that discussion?

Like gcc has built on mac for longer than Apple (then next step) was using gcc.

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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by kps on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:46AM (#22476134)

1988–1995. https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull18.html#SEC13

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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by monocasa on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:58AM (#22484792)

So the reason for that was that Apple was of the legal opinion that GPLed software was incompatible with their OS. Since they didn't have process boundaries at the time, all code running on the system, even the OS was basically linked together in a big blob. Apple thought (incorrectly) that allowing any GPL software would mean that they had to GPL their OS, and were vehemently anti free software.

I think under those conditions, the FSF's boycott was fair.

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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by kps on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:40AM (#22485263)

Er, no, that wasn't the reason at all. FSF boycotted Apple because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel#Lawsuits

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