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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:43:23 -0700
- cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
> So, copyright assignments are required for checkins on branches, but not
> patent licences?
We don't even have good rules about patents on the mainline, but nobody
should be checking in code known to infringe patents anywhere, obviously.
Patents are a major weakness in the GNU Project, in my opinion. The
FSF needs to decide what action they want to take. I've had that
conversation with RMS.
The point is that a branch should be treated as a patch in progress,
but with the caveat that since we are distributing it, we must avoid
all the usual problems that could come from distributing software.
The patch is OK.
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