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Re: [gfortran] implementation of G77's getcwd
Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 01:19:59PM +0200, Tobias Schl?ter wrote:
>
>>Paul Brook wrote:
>>> ...
>>>/* Implementation of the GETCWD intrinsic.
>>> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> Contributed by Steven G. Kargl <kargls@comcast.net>.
>>>
>>>This file is part of the GNU Fortran 95 runtime library (libgfortran).
>>>
>>>Libgfortran is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>>modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>>License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>>>version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>>
>>Shouldn't that be GPL + exception?
>>
>
>
> In all honesty, I would prefer a 2 clause BSD copyright.
> I somehow doubt that that copyright would be acceptable. :-)
>
The copyright notice talks about the whole of libgfortran, which certainly is
copyrightable. Currently the copyright notices vary between different files,
and they should be homogenized, which is the subject in the other thread. I
agree that it would be very difficult to show that this particular file is
protected by copyright (or more precisely, proving that someone infringed on
the cpyright of that file would be very difficult), as there are no ways of
implementing this functionality that are significantly different.
> Does GPL+exception permit the distribution of someone's
> compiled program without distribution of the code itself?
> That is, what is the affect on our potential commercial
> users? I've never followed the copyright wars.
Yes. And since I'm talking to Americans: this is not legal advice and I'm not
a lawyer.
- Tobi