Re: Libgfortran licensing

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Paul Brook wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 August 2004 23:02, I wrote:

> > Stop !   Wait !
> >
> > Only the original author(s) of these pieces can determine under what
> > license they want their contributions distributed.  As "we" didn't write
> > all of them (some were written by Andy Vaught), we cannot decide
> > unilaterally to change the licensing.  If the license does not conform
> > to the one normally used for run-time library code, and we didn't write
> > the specific code ourselves, we should recode the functionality.

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

Yep, *if* we can determine that everything "we", i.e., you and Steve, 
brought over to the gcc-g95 sourceforge repository at the time of the 
fork was written by people who assigned their copyrights to the FSF.

As far as I know it's a non-trivial exercise to check this, although 
Andy did, of course.

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