Libgfortran licensing

[Toon Moene]

Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:17, Toon Moene wrote:
> 
>>Scanning the ChangeLog (and the one from the then-current "libgfor", the 
>>fore-runner of libgfortran) will tell us everything we need to know 
>>about contributers to libgfortran prior to Paul Brook's and Steven 
>>Bosscher's fork on the 3rd of January 2003.
>>
>>If everyone who contributed signed the copyright on his contributions 
>>over to the FSF, I think we are legally in the clear to change the 
>>license on the files involved.
> 
> Basically right.
> 
> The only hitch I see would be if someone had a copyright assignment
> on file, but the assignment didn't cover all their work.  That's
> one of the reason I like the "past and future" style assignments
> so much...
> 
> So not only do you have to verify the contributor has an assignment
> on file, you have to verify precisely what is covered by their
> assignment.  Does it cover just past work, a specific set of changes,
> past and future changes to a particular set of files, past and
> future to everything in the library, etc etc.

I never managed to get access to the copyright assignment file (out of 
laziness ... the procedure is quite complicated).

Can you mail me a recent version ?

Thanks,

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