The funny part is that BSD License clearly states that original authors retain copyrights to the product. Copyright owners are the only people who can decide whether the license is allowed to be changed to another license that isn't compatible with the prior one. In fact the only conclusion that can be drawn from that is that if GCC would manage to change the license of the original code to GPLv3 without the explicit permission from the authors, this would be a copyright violation. What really in a theoretical case (with GCC license changes actually intepreted the other way too) would happen is that you would end up in a situation where you can have a source distributed under a more limitative license (GPLv3) but you could also choose to obtain it from the authors under BSDL. The icky bit of it all is it seems to me they just left an enormous hole in the licenses since if all target code is GPLv3 and you can only link GPLv3 against GPLv3, they'd as far as I see it nullify the no-linking rule. (or face a law-suit)
Seriously though: It's not going to change anything. In most countries copyright is definitive while software licenses are iffy so FSF guys would have to be idiots to try to sue.
Seriously though: It's not going to change anything. In most countries copyright is definitive while software licenses are iffy so FSF guys would have to be idiots to try to sue.
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