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Re: Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils?
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:16:33PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
>
> > Note that this isn't just GPLv2 vs 3 or anything like that, I think we
> > generally need permission when moving code from one project to
> > another.
>
> The chmod parser is actually coming from gnulib, whose sole purpose is
> to be shared among GNU projects.
>
It is GPLv2. This is not acceptable for gfortran's runtime
library unless one can get permission to add the exception.
--
Steve