Beyond GCC 3.0
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Fri Jun 29 12:04:00 GMT 2001
> So, copyright assignments are required for checkins on branches, but not
> patent licences?
We don't even have good rules about patents on the mainline, but nobody
should be checking in code known to infringe patents anywhere, obviously.
Patents are a major weakness in the GNU Project, in my opinion. The
FSF needs to decide what action they want to take. I've had that
conversation with RMS.
The point is that a branch should be treated as a patch in progress,
but with the caveat that since we are distributing it, we must avoid
all the usual problems that could come from distributing software.
The patch is OK.
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