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Re: Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils?
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, 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 14:38:51 -0700
- Subject: Re: Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils?
- References: <6dc9ffc80807091307g40114fcfk55ae9b859bd7821b@mail.gmail.com> <20080709201743.GR12539@synopsys.com> <6dc9ffc80807091324u18a992f4p1fbb5ed2d95524e7@mail.gmail.com> <20080709203514.GT12539@synopsys.com> <jed4lmwyfi.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:16:33PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
>
> > Note that this isn't just GPLv2 vs 3 or anything like that, I think we
> > generally need permission when moving code from one project to
> > another.
>
> The chmod parser is actually coming from gnulib, whose sole purpose is
> to be shared among GNU projects.
>
It is GPLv2. This is not acceptable for gfortran's runtime
library unless one can get permission to add the exception.
--
Steve