[patch, gfortran] pr22570 and related issues.

[Jack Howarth]

Paul,
   The original fcvs Fortran compiler validation suite has its license
described at...

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/softagre.htm

which says...

Please note that within the United States, copyright protection, under Section 105 of the United States Code, Title 17, is not available for any work of the United States Government and/or for any works created by United States Government employees. User acknowledges that these test suites contain work which was created by NIST employees and is therefore in the public domain and not subject to copyright. The User may use, distribute, or incorporate these test suites provided the User acknowledges this via an explicit acknowledgment of NIST-related contributions to the User's work. User also agrees to acknowledge, via an explicit acknowledgment, that any modifications or alterations have been made to these test suites before redistribution.

Not being an expert on GPL, those terms seem close enough to GPL that NIST
could easily relicense the packages using those terms under GPL. Of course
going those all the adminstrative hoops to do that would be a lot of work
for sure.
               Jack