Libgfortran licensing

[Toon Moene]

Tobias Schlüter wrote:

> To make things short: under which license should libgfortran be licensed?
> 
> While doing some cleanups on libgfortran I noticed that some files are
> licensed under the plain GPL, others under the LGPL, I didn't see any that say
> GPL+exception, but there could well be. Could someone who has the authority to
> make such statements for the FSF please tell me under which license
> libgfortran should be licensed (I assume that the library should be licensed
> under the terms of the GPL+exception, as GCC's other runtime libraries).

Stop !   Wait !

Only the original author(s) of these pieces can determine under what 
license they want their contributions distributed.  As "we" didn't write 
all of them (some were written by Andy Vaught), we cannot decide 
unilaterally to change the licensing.  If the license does not conform 
to the one normally used for run-time library code, and we didn't write 
the specific code ourselves, we should recode the functionality.

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