libstdc++ v3 copyright

Steinar Bang sb@metis.no
Wed Oct 21 03:13:00 GMT 1998


>>>>> atai@ece.ucsd.edu (Andy Tai):

> Just hope the wonderful authors of libstdc++ v 3.0 (Cygnus) can
> assign the copyright to the Free Software Foundation, as the library
> is a critical system component and the FSF is a good copyright
> holder for such infrastructure components.

That will be hard to do, since (a neccessary, core) part of this
library is a verbatim inclusion of the SGI implementation of STL,
which most certainly won't be signed over to FSF.



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