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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