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

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 27.09.2020 23:45, Travis Siegel via fpc-devel wrote:
> 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.

It just means that all IEEE compliant libraries that Florian knows are 
released under a license that does not allow to include them within the FPC.

Ondrej