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

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> In that case, you *should* get RMS involved (or, rather,
> license-violation@gnu.org, as described at
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html>); it may not be necessary
> to get him involved in micromanagement of official GNU maintainers and
> different forks when the appropriate fork can simply be included in GCC on
> technical grounds, but GPL violations are a matter where the FSF does need
> to get involved.

We want to do that only as a last resort.  Kaveh Ghazi made an excellent 
remark during the GCC Summit: try some other way of communication than 
by e-mail.  We thought a while about someone from the GCC community who 
could visit Andy, but couldn't think of anyone (that lives in Phoenix, 
Arizona).  As a second way of action he suggested me phoning Andy, but 
that's a bit complicated, due to the time difference.

I think I have a third alternative, that I'll try shortly.

In the meantime, integration of gcc-g95 into the tree-ssa branch should 
continue - there's nothing (to my knowledge) in the gcc-g95 code that's 
not properly GPL'd (or LGPL'd where appropriate) and/or not assigned to 
the FSF.

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