Libgfortran licensing

[Robert Dewar]

Paul Brook wrote:

> Doesn't the copyright assignment give the FSF power licence the code as they 
> see fit?

I don't think so, I think the assignment document guarantees that the
licensing will be compatible with the GPL. You don't want the FSF to
suddenly be able to make everything proprietary (the original author
has this capability, but it is deliberately signed away with the
assignment).
> 
> IIRC libiberty only had problems changing the licence because the code wasn't 
> FSF copyright.
> 
> Paul