Copyright status of example code in Bugzilla - how to deal with when writing testcases.

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Wed Mar 30 02:52:00 GMT 2005


Daniel Berlin wrote:

> IE if we added a very large warning to the submission page that said
> "PLEASE NOTE: BY SUBMITTING A TESTCASE, YOU AGREE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT
> TO CREATE, USE, AND PUBLISH EITHER YOUR VERBATIM TESTCASE OR A
> DERIVATIVE UNDER GCC'S CURRENT LICENSE"
> or something of the sort, they would be very hard pressed to win in a
> real lawsuit in court.

I think that would be a goof ides, I would say GPL explicitlty, since
several different licenses are used in GCC.



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