Re: libstdc++ v3 copyright

[atai at ece dot ucsd dot edu (Andy Tai)]

>> Just hope the wonderful authors of libstdc++ v 3.0 (Cygnus) can
>> assign the copyright to the Free Software Foundation, as the library
>> is a critical system component and the FSF is a good copyright
>> holder for such infrastructure components.
>
>That will be hard to do, since (a neccessary, core) part of this
>library is a verbatim inclusion of the SGI implementation of STL,
>which most certainly won't be signed over to FSF.


Thanks for pointing this out.  I guess it is still possible for the rest of
the library (like IO Streams, math, etc.) to be copyrighted by the FSF, as these
are still critical system components.


Thanks for your consideration, libstdc++ authors.

a free software user