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Re: http://g95.sourceforge.net or http://gcc-g95.sourceforge.net


Joseph S. Myers wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:



Note that we (you, I, anyone) have the _right_ to get the source code of his tree, by the GPL. Just pretending that his tree does not exist, is an action that in IMHO undermines the GPL.



If his tree contains code assigned to the FSF by someone other than
himself, that is (e.g., code from the rest of GCC) - since the standard
assignment allows you to make proprietary derivatives of your own code.


His tree contains code from Paul (at least 1/3 of all code), myself and others who have contributed in the past. And of course he links with the middle-end in the binary that he distributes. The standard assignment does not allow you to link proprierty code to GPLed code, or to take ownership of code contributed by others.

Does he provide a written offer of source with his binaries?


No.
And he has rejected requests from Paul and others to provide the source code to them.


Like I said, we are trying to find a solution to this issue.

Greetz
Steven



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