[fpc-devel] Another thread about the fact that official FPC releases are *unnecessarily* non-representative of the platforms it actually runs on

[Travis Siegel]

On 9/27/2020 3:50 PM, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel wrote:
> - there are little libraries being really IEEE compliant for float128
>>> - if they are IEEE compliant, their license does not allow to use the
>>> code in the FPC rtl.
>>
I don't understand this statement.

How does having all the required functions for a certain kind of 
compliance restrict anything?  I was under the impression that if 
someone wrote those functions from scratch that there was no licensing 
issue.  Where's the conflict in that case?

I've read most of the gpl licenses multiple times, and I've never seen 
anything targeting compliance of any kind, What does this statement stem 
from, and how does it apply to FPC code specifically?

This would seem to indicate that no gpl license code could ever obtain 
compliance with certain standards, and I've seen more than once where 
said code does just that.  I don't get it.

Someone enlighten me please.