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Re: Libgfortran licensing

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
To: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>,Tobias Schlüter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>,GCC Fortran mailing list <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:16:08 -0400
Subject: Re: Libgfortran licensing
References: <4134DDAB.2040406@physik.uni-muenchen.de> <4134F562.5010101@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> <200408312311.47406.paul@codesourcery.com>

Paul Brook wrote:

Doesn't the copyright assignment give the FSF power licence the code as they see fit?


I don't think so, I think the assignment document guarantees that the
licensing will be compatible with the GPL. You don't want the FSF to
suddenly be able to make everything proprietary (the original author
has this capability, but it is deliberately signed away with the
assignment).

IIRC libiberty only had problems changing the licence because the code wasn't FSF copyright.

Paul

References:
- Libgfortran licensing
  - From: Tobias Schlüter
- Re: Libgfortran licensing
  - From: Toon Moene
- Re: Libgfortran licensing
  - From: Paul Brook

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