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Re: Repository Write Access: A privilege or a right?
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07:16:42PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > There's also the new/recent complication that companies/groups now
> > maintain their own GCC branches, perhaps requiring write access even
> > for programmers who don't contribute to FSF GCC.
>
> It is my understanding that we do not accept any changes in our tree
> which have not been assigned to the FSF (or which have been put into
> the public domain), even on branches.
FWIW, as an employee of a company which creates vendor branches in the
GCC repository, we agree with your understanding. That doesn't
conflict with what Roger said though: while the copyright of anything
we put in a repository branch is deliberately assigned to the FSF,
that's not the same as contributing it to the FSF GCC, which would
require e.g. testing it on HEAD and getting someone to agree it was a
good idea.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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