GCC 3.3 for OS/2

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Fri Feb 7 22:27:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Neil Booth wrote:
> > Do you have a copyright assignment on file?  That's an essential
> > prerequisite.

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:03:32AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> No. BTW - I ripped some parts of my port from EMX GCC 2.7.2.1 (it is also
> GPLed) -- does it mean that Eberhard Mattes needs copyright assignment
> too?

If he doesn't already have papers on file, then yes.  This is because
everything in GCC gets legally assigned to the FSF, and you can't
legally assign someone else's work.

But if he's hacked GCC in the past, it's possible that he's already
on file.



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