gcc, as, AVX, binutils and MacOS X 10.7

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Oct 2 08:22:53 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-3 01:50 , Andrea D'Amore wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:17, vincent habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:
>> We can’t count on Apple helping us, since they are forbidden to touch every GPL v.3 tool.
> 
> Why is this?

There's been no official statement from Apple, but it's probably to do
with the patent clauses in GPLv3.

- Josh


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