Comment on Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC?parentComments−jwhitlark16yEr, 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. ;-)−pohl16yActually actually, it was NeXT who made that choice.And the license itself does not require copyright assignment. Rather, the FSF does.−wooster16y... and then FSF changed the license. GCC is under GPLv3 now, no?
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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. ;-)
Actually actually, it was NeXT who made that choice.
And the license itself does not require copyright assignment. Rather, the FSF does.
... and then FSF changed the license. GCC is under GPLv3 now, no?