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Re: Legal paperwork for GCC contributions
- From: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>
- To: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, assign at gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:14:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: Legal paperwork for GCC contributions
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <83199CBD-543D-40FA-A203-D39114931D62 at macports dot org>
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 06:48:53PM -0500, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently contributed some fixes against GCC trunk, gcc-4_9-branch, and
> gcc-4_8-branch for which I need the requisite legal paperwork.
>
> However, I'd like to backport these particular fixes to the MacPorts
> Project's ports of Apple GCC 4.2 and LLVM-GCC 4.2, which are licensed
> under "version 2, or (at your option) any later version" of the GPL. We
> would like the software provided by these ports to remain
> GPLv2-licensed.
>
> Given this, what would be the best way for me to handle copyright?
>
> Thanks,
> vq
Lawrence,
Is this even an issue considering that MacPorts is only applying these
fixes as patches on final source releases of the Apple GCC 4.2 and LLVM-GCC 4.2
compilers and there is zero chance of those ever making their way into an
actively maintained source tree for either compiler?
Jack