Fastjar, copyright, and upstream...

[Nathanael Nerode]

Fastjar is currently listed as:
"not part of GCC but shipped with GCC as convenience"

This might lead one to believe that fastjar is imported from upstream.
It isn't, since upstream appears to be effectively unmaintained; it 
hasn't been altered since 2001.  (I pushed a couple of fixes 
upstream, and they're still sitting in the patch tracker.)  Instead, 
fastjar has a *lot* of GCC-local changes.

Portions of fastjar are copyright Bryan Burns and portions are copyright 
Cory Hollingsworth; the rest seems to be copyright FSF. Perhaps Bryan 
Burns and Cory Hollingsworth could be contacted, some arrangement could 
be made, and this copy of fastjar could become an official FSF project, 
or better yet part of GCC?  Since only two non-FSF copyrights are 
involved, both individuals, it seems to me that something reasonable 
could be done here.

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Nathanael Nerode  <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
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