Re: Libgfortran licensing

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 15:58, Toon Moene wrote:

> > > So, short story long, it is ok to do up the patch and submit it, but
> > > it _must_ be reviewed by the right person.  Law in the past has had
> > > some state on this topic, and might be the right person, the SC can ok
> > > it as well.  Not that they can, but rather, they know if they can, and
> > > won't if they can't.
> >
> > Jeff, if you don't understand what's at stake here, I can explain.
>
> Please bring me up to speed; I haven't followed this thread at all.

I found that I still have a directory with a check-out of SourceForge's 
g95 (Andy Vaught's tree) dated Jan 5, 2003, two days after the fork.

Scanning the ChangeLog (and the one from the then-current "libgfor", the 
fore-runner of libgfortran) will tell us everything we need to know 
about contributers to libgfortran prior to Paul Brook's and Steven 
Bosscher's fork on the 3rd of January 2003.

If everyone who contributed signed the copyright on his contributions 
over to the FSF, I think we are legally in the clear to change the 
license on the files involved.

I'll post an analysis tomorrow morning CEST time.

For everything added after the fork we're in the clear.

Hope this helps,

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