Re: Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils?

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:24:44PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:07:10PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> libgfortran calls fork/exec /bin/chmod to parse argument to chmod.
> >> Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils which implements /bin/chmod
> >> to properly implement chmod? coreutils is under GPLv3 while libgfortran
> >> is under GPLv2 + exception. Is that possible to get permission from
> >> the FSF to borrow code from coreutils?
> >
> > If the consensus of the Fortran maintainers is that this is the right
> > thing to do, the SC can ask the FSF for permission.
> >
> 
> I don't know if this counts:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2008-07/msg00046.html

I suggest preparing a patch as usual (as if there were no issue) and
posting to gcc-patches.  The SC can then ask RMS to bless it (pointing
him to the patch so he knows exactly what he is blessing), and it
can go in.  I don't think he would object.  Note that this isn't just
GPLv2 vs 3 or anything like that, I think we generally need permission
when moving code from one project to another.

I presume this is just the code that parses the symbolic modes to get
the numeric modes?