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Re: Copyright assignments and java/libgcj.
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:33:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: Copyright assignments and java/libgcj.
- References: <42E92F46.3080402@avtrex.com>
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Recently we experienced the Big-Classpath-Merge. Now most of the source
> code for libgcj is maintained in the Classpath project and periodically
> copied into the GCC CVS repository.
Cool; does this mean that the amount of code built by a gcc bootstrap
will decrease? Or will the combined libgjc/Classpath code still be all
included in the gcc distribution.
> The consensus from the gcj IRC seems to be that a copyright assignment
> for Classpath is now necessary for contributions to the parts of libgcj
> that are maintained by Classpath. This also means that said patches
> should be checked into Classpath's CVS instead of GCC's
The authority on such issues is with the FSF, of course.