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Re: libstdc++ v3 copyright
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: libstdc++ v3 copyright
- From: Nathan Myers <ncm at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:01:56 -0700
- Newsgroups: cygnus.egcs
- Organization: http://www.cantrip.org/
- References: <199810210045.RAA10654@vision.ucsd.edu>, <wh4ssy8bou.fsf.cygnus.egcs@viffer.oslo.metis.no>
Steinar Bang wrote:
>
> >>>>> atai@ece.ucsd.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.
No, that's no problem. The SGI/HP portions of the library
are sequestered in a separate directory -- for just that reason.
Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org