Re: Original commit history for gfortran

[Tobias Schlüter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>]

Hi all,

I'm sorry if I made this turn into a discussion of the benefits of Free 
Software, just two short points ...

On 2011-06-19 18:58, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:04:09PM +0700, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote:
> > Andy started the project and at the time of the fork still was the
> > majority contributor.
>
> Perhaps, you need to read the Copyright notices in the
> trans-*.[ch] files.  It was Paul Brook and Steven Bosscher
> who initially wrote the majority of the code that hooked
> Andy's parser up to the GCC middle and backend.

Let's not forget GCC itself, which really is the biggest part of g95 (of 
course, there would probably have been a g95 without gcc, as there would 
have been another compiler backend, but there wouldn't have been a g95 
without Andy).

> > If you have concerns about PathScale email me privately.  My intention
> > is to vet the codebase.  Vetting g95 is relatively easy, but there's a
> > chasm between it and gfortran I'm trying to map.  If that's successful
> > I'd like to figure out if/how PathScale can contribute.  if we continue
> > to get much more negatively this early on (I don't care the reason).
> > I'll just forget the whole thing.
>
> All of the code in gfortran is assigned to the FSF.  Have you
> approached the FSF with a request to dual licenses the code?
> There are on the order of 100 contributors listed in the
> gcc/fortran/ChangeLog* files.  Are you asking each individual to
> re-license his/her contribution to gfortran?

Given Christopher's answer to my question, I think he wants to make sure 
that the code is REALLY assigned to the FSF so that his company doesn't 
run into troubles down the road.

Cheers,
- Tobi