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

[Robert Dewar]

Joe Buck wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:21:02PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
>>I think that would be a goof ides, I would say GPL explicitlty, since
>>several different licenses are used in GCC.
> 
> 
> Freudian slip?  It seems that this may well be a "goof idea".
> 
> Then we can't accept any test cases from free software that has a
> GPL-incompatible license.  Our only requirement for a testcase is that it
> can be distributed with gcc, and that modified forms can also be
> distributed.  It is a mistake to try to be more strict, or to specify
> either "GPL" or "GCC's CURRENT LICENSE".


true enough, so more care is needed in the language here