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Re: Copyright status of example code in Bugzilla - how to deal with when writing testcases.
Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >IE if we added a very large warning to the submission page that said
> >"PLEASE NOTE: BY SUBMITTING A TESTCASE, YOU AGREE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT
> >TO CREATE, USE, AND PUBLISH EITHER YOUR VERBATIM TESTCASE OR A
> >DERIVATIVE UNDER GCC'S CURRENT LICENSE"
> >or something of the sort, they would be very hard pressed to win in a
> >real lawsuit in court.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:21:02PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> I think that would be a goof ides, I would say GPL explicitlty, since
> several different licenses are used in GCC.
Freudian slip? It seems that this may well be a "goof idea".
Then we can't accept any test cases from free software that has a
GPL-incompatible license. Our only requirement for a testcase is that it
can be distributed with gcc, and that modified forms can also be
distributed. It is a mistake to try to be more strict, or to specify
either "GPL" or "GCC's CURRENT LICENSE".