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Re: Revised GCC Runtime Library Exception
fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
>> [...] Earlier Bradley Kuhn had indicated that this would be covered
>> in the updated FAQ, but I don't really see it there. I sent him a
>> separate message asking him to update it.
>
> Joe Buck wrote:
>
>> [...] Since the FSF is the copyright owner, even if your reading is
>> held by someone to be correct, then the FSF's FAQ would count as an
>> additional permission. [...]
>
>
> Is anyone else uncomfortable that an important license is to
> require clarification by a separately updated, possibly
> contradictory FAQ?
While that can be troubling, I think it's OK in this specific case. I
personally never read the license the way Joern did. So I think it
really is a matter of clarification, rather than changing terms.
Ian