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Re: Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils?
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: "Joe Buck" <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org" <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:24:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils?
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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
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H.J.