Update to GCC copyright assignment policy
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@orcam.me.uk
Tue Jun 1 16:01:47 GMT 2021
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, Paul Koning via Gcc wrote:
> That seems to create a possible future complication. Prior to this
> change, the FSF (as owner of the copyright) could make changes such as
> replacing the GPL 2 license by GPL 3. With the policy change, that
> would no longer be possible, unless you get the approval of all the
> copyright holders. This may not be considered a problem, but it does
> seem like a change.
It is a real problem. As I recall a while ago parts of QEMU had to be
removed and reimplemented from scratch when the project switched licences,
because a contributor and therefore a copyright holder (whom I knew in
person and who I am sure would make no fuss about it) has since passed
away.
Maciej
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