Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?

[Sergei Steshenko]

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> From: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden; edmund ronald <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?
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> --- On Tue, 11/13/12, edmund ronald <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> From: edmund ronald <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, 
> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, 
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> Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 4:42 AM
> 
> [snip]
> 
> As all Apple software is based on gcc, a personal protest by you against 
> Apple's practices would probably be quite effective - how come you 
> aren't doing something?  This thread started with worries about restrictive 
> Xcode licenses, which essentially translates for us to restrictive gcc 
> licenses.
> 
> [snip]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> "As all Apple software is based on gcc" - where did you take that info 
> from ?
> 
> LLVM is an _open_ source and _free_ (in FSF sense of the word) software, and 
> for 
> more than two years it has been self-hosting:
> 
> 
> http://java.dzone.com/news/llvms-clang-compiler-achieves :
> 
> "
> Self-sufficiency is a major milestone for any compiler technology.  The LLVM 
> (Low Level Virtual Machine) developers were pleased to announce that their 
> open 
> source compiler, named Clang, has just reached this milestone.  Clang 
> recently 
> completed its first complete self-host by building all of the LLVM and itself.
> 
> In the testing process, Clang was able to compile over 550,000 lines of C++ 
> code, which is the total amount of lines in LLVM and Clang.  The resulting 
> binaries passed all of the regression test suites for Clang and LLVM.  The 
> self-built Clang was then able to build the 550k lines LLVM and Clang code 
> again.  The third Clang build was also fully-functional, which made the 
> bootstrap complete.
> ".
> 
> Furthermore there are Linux distros are partially based on LLVM already: 
> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:12.1 :
> 
> "
> openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released LLVM3 compiler tool and 
> clang, 
> the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source 
> ATI 
> and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a 
> high-performance graphics stack on Linux. 
> ".
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   Sergei.
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Furthermore, did you visit https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ ? And did 
you read, for example, mDNSResponder-320.10.80 license:

"
The majority of the source code in the mDNSResponder project is licensed
under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0, available from:
   <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>

To accommodate license compatibility with the widest possible range
of client code licenses, the shared library code, which is linked
at runtime into the same address space as the client using it, is
licensed under the terms of the "Three-Clause BSD License".

The Linux Name Service Switch code, contributed by National ICT
Australia Ltd (NICTA) is licensed under the terms of the NICTA Public
Software Licence (which is substantially similar to the "Three-Clause
BSD License", with some additional language pertaining to Australian law).
" ?


What exactly is non-free in the above license ?


Disclaimer: I never owned an Apple product and never worked for the company.

Regards,
  Sergei.




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