[fortran-dev, patch] Parsed format data caching

[Tobias Schlüter]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:24:19PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:
>> Dominique Dhumieres wrote:
>>
>>>> Somebody is going to have to explain to me, in babytalk, why we
>>>> possibly cannot combine code used in different parts of gfortran!
>>> In baby Frenglish with a baby mind, my understanding of the recent
>>> "exception" fiasco is that you can, but you'll force anybody linking
>>> her/his code to libgfortran to make their sources public. Since this
>>> will hurt more gnu projects than anybody else, the libraries are under
>>> a less restrictive licence that allows, under conditions I have not
>>> fully understood, to link with the libs without having to disclose
>>> the sources if you cannot or don't want to do it.
>> Nope.  If you look at the contract you signed with the FSF when you 
>> assigned your copyright over, it specifically says that it is a 
>> non-exclusive assignment.
>>
>> You are free to issue your code under a different license, so whoever 
>> wrote the Treaps (ugh! Can you eat that ?) can reuse it under a 
>> different license.
>>
> 
> AFAIK, Andy wrote the original bbt.c code.  You can ask him
> if gfortran can use GPL+exception.

You could also ask the FSF, probably the easier route.

> In the end, we should just bit the bullet and re-invent
> the wheel.

Or this.

Cheers,
- Tobi