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[cdt-releng-inbox] [Bug 113949] C++ Compiler Integration : total lack of "It just works!" philosophy - VERY BAD
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https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=113949
Product/Component: CDT / cdt-releng
Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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CC| |dschaefer@xxxxxxx
Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |FIXED
--- Comment #7 from Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> 2007-11-08 12:56:48 -0400 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> > The CDT itself is not legally
> > allowed to distribute any of the gnu tools due to restrictions on GPL licensed
> > software on the Eclipse site.
> Who decides over this? Without any background it seems like a rather silly
> decision to forbid oneself to distribute GPL software. It would be interesting
> to hear the rationale for this.
The Eclipse Board of Directors decides this. There are risks to the
interpretation of GPL as to what a derived work entails. One could think, and
I'm sure at least one of the laywers for the directors has thought, that you
could interpret it to cover everything on the eclipse.org site. Of course
that's silly, but not so silly to the legal teams that make these decisions.
The real solution to this is to create distributions on other sites that
include Eclipse and GPL components. That's exactly what Wascana is on
SourceForge for Windows C/C++ development.
In fact, I'm going to mark this as fixed since we have that and the CDT is
included in almost all Linux distributions. That covers 95% of CDT users.
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