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Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- To: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Subject: Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:09:19 -0600
- cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann at godzilla dot ICS dot UCI dot EDU>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "G95 developers' mailing list" <g95-develop at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <3920615F.5C50F127@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>you write:
> The interesting question here, of course, is: The stuff is not assigned
> to the FSF,
Right.
> so we cannot include it lock, stock and barrel into the GNU
> Compiler Collection; however, if the source is released under the GPL,
> it might be possible to just rip out the parts we can use to build a
> (say, Fortran 95) compiler we *can* assign to the FSF.
You'd have to discuss it with RMS, but I suspect the answer is no, we couldn't
do that with any significant amounts of code.
> [ However, if not, it might be advisable to those working on the GNU
> Fortran 95 compiler to *not* look at the SGI source ]
The FSF has guidelines for this stuff on their web pages under
information for maintainers of gnu software.
jeff