From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13155 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2006 15:46:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 13144 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2006 15:46:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:46:35 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FWbMU-0004Ds-9T; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:46:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:46:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: DJ Delorie Cc: ibr@radix50.net, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: OT: copyright issues (was: Re: D Symbol Demangling) Message-ID: <20060420154630.GA16179@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: DJ Delorie , ibr@radix50.net, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <44462A40.1040004@kuehne.cn> <20060420132004.GB11710@nevyn.them.org> <20060420152001.GA20059@radix50.net> <200604201540.k3KFeF9U004330@greed.delorie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200604201540.k3KFeF9U004330@greed.delorie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:40:15AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > What is the problem with importing fixes from the proprietary copy > > to the FSF code if the person has the copyright assignment? > > If the patch author has the right assignments, he/she can publish the > patch itself under both licenses, so that it can be applied to both. > > What you can't do is take the fix from the sources themselves and > apply it to the other sources, because once they're published under > one license you don't have the right to change that license to > something else. Right. The precise situation I was alluding to is that you need to track authorship of changes; you can't accept fixes to the other version from contributors without an FSF copyright assignment and propogate them into GDB. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery