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Re: Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils?


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:07:10PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> libgfortran calls fork/exec /bin/chmod to parse argument to chmod.
>> Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils which implements /bin/chmod
>> to properly implement chmod? coreutils is under GPLv3 while libgfortran
>> is under GPLv2 + exception. Is that possible to get permission from
>> the FSF to borrow code from coreutils?
>
> If the consensus of the Fortran maintainers is that this is the right
> thing to do, the SC can ask the FSF for permission.
>

I don't know if this counts:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2008-07/msg00046.html

-- 
H.J.


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