Re: [sdcc-devel] [Sdcc-user] "FreeWare" vs GPL

[Maarten B. <sou...@ds...>]

Yes, the devel-list is where it belongs I guess.

I have no problems removing it from the generated source files and to
replace it with "GPL ANSI-C Compiler".

It can stay or be removed from the documentation. I don't really care.

I would like to keep it on the homepage. If someone searches the internet
for a "freeware 8051 C compiler" I surely would like our website to pop
up.

Maarten

> Hi,
>
> this thread on sdcc-user has gotten little attention,
> maybe it's more appropriate here on sdcc-devel.
>
>
> Ken Jackson schrieb 2006-03-07:
>> I notice that src/SDCCglue.c has this comment that gets tacked
>> onto the top of generated .asm files:
>>
>>   char *iComments1 =3D
>>   {
>>     ";--------------------------------------------------------\n"
>>     "; File Created by SDCC : FreeWare ANSI-C Compiler\n"};
>>
>> Since SDCC is protected by GPL, it would be good to change the
>> word FreeWare.  Check out what the GNU folks say:
>>
>>   Please don't use the term "freeware" as a synonym for "free
>>   software."  The term "freeware" was used often in the 1980s for
>>   programs released only as executables, with source code not
>>   available.  Today it has no particular agreed-on definition.
>>
>> <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Freeware>
>>
>> -Ken Jackson
>
> sorry, no one picked this up for quite a while.
> Yet I think this is a valid request and SDCC should
> avoid the term FreeWare.
>
> SDCC is using at other places (SF project page, Manual)
> the term "open source".
>
> According to the link you've given above usage of the term
> "open source" would also be discouraged.
>
> What to do?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Frieder