* Stefan Reinauer stepan@core-systems.de [010828 03:20]:
- Although we agree with the ideas promoted by the free software foundation we do not and/or cannot necessarily agree with all of the rules set by the foundation. In this light it could, to some extent, be a contrast of wishes to become an offical GNU project.
For clarification: This does not mean that we do not like or do not want to use GPL as OpenBIOS license. GNU projects are rather those mentioned on the GNU website and following a set of rules including to use GNU utilities for development whenever possible as well as following some GNU coding conventions. But this does not always make sense. Writing a simple C compiler to translate C to FCode is most probably more effective than writing a GCC backend to do so. This affects the time you need to write such a compiler as well as the quality of the produced code as gcc's mid layer language RTL is not very good for (virtual) machines without registers. Still, writing a small compiler for that purpose is contradictory to the idea of reusing the existing GNU code base.
Best regards, Stefan